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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2014

Community engagement for big epidemiology: deliberative democracy as a tool.

Rebekah E McWhirter, Christine R Critchley, Dianne Nicol, Don Chalmers, Tess Whitton, Margaret Otlowski, Michael M Burgess, Joanne L Dickinson

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. Bridging community-engaged research and implementation science methods to advance public health practice.Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2025
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  13. Dynamic consent and personalised medicine.The Medical journal of Australia · 2022
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  16. The reported impact of public involvement in biobanks: A scoping review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Rebekah E McWhirterMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia. Rebekah.McWhirter@utas.edu.au.
Christine R CritchleyCentre for Law and Genetics, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia. ccritchley@swin.edu.au.
Dianne NicolMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia. Dianne.Nicol@utas.edu.au.
Don ChalmersMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia. Don.Chalmers@utas.edu.au.
Tess WhittonMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia. Tess.Whitton@utas.edu.au.
Margaret OtlowskiCentre for Law and Genetics, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia. Margaret.Otlowski@utas.edu.au.
Michael M BurgessMaurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada. Michael.burgess@ubc.ca.
Joanne L DickinsonMenzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia. Jo.Dickinson@utas.edu.au.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public trust is critical in any project requiring significant public support, both in monetary terms and to encourage participation. The research community has widely recognized the centrality of public trust, garnered through community consultation, to the success of large-scale epidemiology. This paper examines the potential utility of the deliberative democracy methodology within the public health research setting. A deliberative democracy event was undertaken in Tasmania, Australia, as part of a wider program of community consultation regarding the potential development of a Tasmanian Biobank. Twenty-five Tasmanians of diverse backgrounds participated in two weekends of deliberation; involving elements of information gathering; discussion; identification of issues and formation of group resolutions. Participants demonstrated strong support for a Tasmanian Biobank and their deliberations resulted in specific proposals in relation to consent; privacy; return of results; governance; funding; and, commercialization and benefit sharing. They exhibited a high degree of satisfaction with the event, and confidence in the outcomes. Deliberative democracy methodology is a useful tool for community engagement that addresses some of the limitations of traditional consultation methods.

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PMID25563457
PMCPMC4282883

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