ArticleHealth research policy and systems2009
SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 17: Dealing with insufficient research evidence.
Article in Health research policy and systems, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Understanding evidence: a statewide survey to explore evidence-informed public health decision-making in a local government setting.Implementation science : IS · 2014Trial
- Supporting the use of research evidence in decision-making in crisis zones in low- and middle-income countries: a critical interpretive synthesis.Health research policy and systems · 2020Article
- The governmental health policy-development process for Syrian refugees: an embedded qualitative case studies in Lebanon and Ontario.Conflict and health · 2019Article
- The GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) framework for health system and public health decisions.Health research policy and systems · 2018Article
- A Qualitative Assessment of the Evidence Utilization for Health Policy-Making on the Basis of SUPPORT Tools in a Developing Country.International journal of health policy and management · 2017Article
- An interpretive review of consensus statements on clinical guideline development and their application in the field of traditional and complementary medicine.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2017Review
- Tobacco Use during Pregnancy and Its Associated Factors in a Mountain District of Eastern Nepal: A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Survey.Frontiers in public health · 2017Article
- Evidence for informing health policy development in Low-income Countries (LICs): perspectives of policy actors in Uganda.International journal of health policy and management · 2015Article
- Knowledge translation strategies to improve the use of evidence in public health decision making in local government: intervention design and implementation plan.Implementation science : IS · 2013Article
- Knowledge translation of research findings.Implementation science : IS · 2012Article
- Missing and accounted for: gaps and areas of wealth in the public health review literature.BMC public health · 2011Review
- Where there is no evidence: use of expert consensus methods to fill the evidence gap in low-income countries and cultural minorities.International journal of mental health systems · 2010Article
- SUPPORT tools for evidence-informed policymaking in health 18: Planning monitoring and evaluation of policies.Health research policy and systems · 2009Article
- SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP).Health research policy and systems · 2009Article
- SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 12: Finding and using research evidence about resource use and costs.Health research policy and systems · 2009Article
- SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 8: Deciding how much confidence to place in a systematic review.Health research policy and systems · 2009Article
- SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 16: Using research evidence in balancing the pros and cons of policies.Health research policy and systems · 2009Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. In this article, we address the issue of decision making in situations in which there is insufficient evidence at hand. Policymakers often have insufficient evidence to know with certainty what the impacts of a health policy or programme option will be, but they must still make decisions. We suggest four questions that can be considered when there may be insufficient evidence to be confident about the impacts of implementing an option. These are: 1. Is there a systematic review of the impacts of the option? 2. Has inconclusive evidence been misinterpreted as evidence of no effect? 3. Is it possible to be confident about a decision despite a lack of evidence? 4. Is the option potentially harmful, ineffective or not worth the cost?
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