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ArticlePLoS medicine2014

Europe needs a central, transparent, and evidence-based approval process for behavioural prevention interventions.

Fabrizio Faggiano, Elias Allara, Fabrizia Giannotta, Roberta Molinar, Harry Sumnall, Reinout Wiers, Susan Michie, Linda Collins, Patricia Conrod

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Health promotion and disease prevention registries in the EU: a cross country comparison.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023
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  6. Transparent, Open, and Reproducible Prevention Science.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Fabrizio FaggianoDepartment of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy.
Elias AllaraDepartment of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy; School of Public Health, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
Fabrizia GiannottaChild and Baby Lab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Roberta MolinarDepartment of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy.
Harry SumnallCentre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Reinout WiersDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Susan MichieDepartment of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Linda CollinsThe Methodology Center and Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, United States of America.
Patricia ConrodAddictions Department Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

Funding

THE REFINEMENT &APPLICATION OF MEDICAL DECISION MAKING IN PREVENTION SCIENCESP50DA010075 · NIDA · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK · PI LANZA, STEPHANIE T · 1996 to 2014
$24.5M
NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA010075
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fabrizio Faggiano and colleagues discuss how a central, transparent, and evidence-based approval process is needed for behavioral prevention interventions in Europe and propose a way forward. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

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Health BehaviorDelivery of Health CareEuropeHumans

Identifiers

PMID25291521
PMCPMC4188564

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