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ArticleBMJ global health2019

Complex health interventions in complex systems: improving the process and methods for evidence-informed health decisions.

Susan L Norris, Eva A Rehfuess, Helen Smith, Özge Tunçalp, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Nathan P Ford, Anayda Portela

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Article in BMJ global health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing 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

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

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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

7 authors.

Susan L NorrisDepartment of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Eva A RehfuessInstitute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Pettenkofer School of Public Health, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Helen SmithInternational Health Consulting Services, London, UK.
Özge TunçalpDepartment of Reproductive Health and Research including UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Jeremy M GrimshawClinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Nathan P FordDepartment of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Anayda PortelaDepartment of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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reviewsystematic review

Identifiers

PMID30775018
PMCPMC6350736

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