ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2009
The evolution of evidence hierarchies: what can Bradford Hill's 'guidelines for causation' contribute?
Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03351712 (ACTonHEALTH Study Protocol), which is not on this map. Cited by 60 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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ACTonHEALTH Study Protocol: Promoting Psychological Flexibility With Activity Tracker and mHealth Tools to Foster Healthy Lifestyle for Obesity and Other Chronic Health Conditions
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