Commentary: On the use of quasi-experimental designs in public health evaluation.

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.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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3. Randomised and non-randomised studies to estimate the effect of community-level public health interventions: definitions and methodological considerations.Emerging themes in epidemiology · 2017
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