A fragile but critical link: a commentary on the importance of government-academy relationships.

Adalsteinn Brown, Greg Marchildon, Stephen Bornstein, Moriah Ellen

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Article in Israel journal of health policy research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Sharing reflections and expressing appreciation upon completing a decade as co-editor of the IJHPR.Israel journal of health policy research · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Research in government and academia: the case of health policy.2018

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Adalsteinn BrownDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Sixth Floor, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T 3M7, Canada. adalsteinn.brown@utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-4792-5938

Greg MarchildonDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Sixth Floor, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T 3M7, Canada.

Stephen BornsteinCentre of Applied Health Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF, Canada.

Moriah EllenInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interactions between government and academia can be an important support to effective policy and they can also ground researchers' methods and perspectives more strongly in the realities of policy-making and politics, leading to more relevant research. If properly developed, these interactions can lead to relationships between government and academia that re-enforce evidence-informed policy and useful research. However, strong relationships require repeated interactions and strong personal connections, something that can be supported through careers that cross academia and government. Academic and public service polices that value these kinds of careers can help build strong relationships.

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GovernmentPolicy MakingAcademies and InstitutesHealth PolicyHealth Services ResearchPoliticsResearch PersonnelUnited States

Identifiers

PMID30285908

DOI10.1186/s13584-018-0247-7

PMCPMC6167879

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