ArticleBritish journal of sports medicine2016
Death by effectiveness: exercise as medicine caught in the efficacy trap!
Article in British journal of sports medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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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.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prescribing Physical Activity and Exercise for People with CKD: A Practical Guide by the Global Renal Exercise Network.Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN · 2025Guideline
- Exercise therapy for tendinopathy: a mixed-methods evidence synthesis exploring feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2023Pooled it
- The Effects of Active Video Games on Health-Related Physical Fitness and Motor Competence in Children and Adolescents with Healthy Weight: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- The Effects of a Lifestyle Intervention Supported by the InterWalk Smartphone App on Increasing Physical Activity Among Persons With Type 2 Diabetes: Parallel-Group, Randomized Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Trial
- Programming and supervision of resistance training leads to positive effects on strength and body composition: results from two randomised trials of community fitness programmes.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Reintroducing community health psychology: A journal-based analysis of the visibility and integration of community-based participatory research.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Review
- Can Recreational Soccer Improve Physical Literacy Dimensions Among Adolescents with High Cardiometabolic Risk?Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- On the Move in the community: Protocol for a hybrid 1 trial examining effectiveness and fidelity of a community-based group exercise program for older adults.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
- Evidence-based yet still challenging! Research on physical activity in old age.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2023Article
- A systematic narrative review of extrinsic strategies to improve affective responses to exercise.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Review
- Effect of an Active Video Game Intervention Combined With Multicomponent Exercise for Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children With Overweight and Obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR serious games · 2022Article
- Effects of Active Video Games on Health-Related Physical Fitness and Motor Competence in Children and Adolescents With Overweight or Obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR serious games · 2021Review
- The National ReferAll Database: An Open Dataset of Exercise Referral Schemes Across the UK.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Pragmatic evaluation of a coproduced physical activity referral scheme: a UK quasi-experimental study.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Assessment of Active Video Games' Energy Expenditure in Children with Overweight and Obesity and Differences by Gender.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Protocol for Minute Calisthenics: a randomized controlled study of a daily, habit-based, bodyweight resistance training program.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Implementing Exercise in Healthcare Settings: The Potential of Implementation Science.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Article
- Feasibility of procedures for a randomised pilot study of reduced exertion, high-intensity interval training (REHIT) with non-diabetic hyperglycaemia patients.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2020Article
- DEBATE: Do interventions based on behavioral theory work in the real world?The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- A Pragmatic Application of the RE-AIM Framework for Evaluating the Implementation of Physical Activity as a Standard of Care in Health Systems.Preventing chronic disease · 2018Article
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