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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2021

Selecting Review Outcomes for Systematic Reviews of Public Health Interventions.

Luke Wolfenden, Ani Movsisyan, Sam McCrabb, Jan M Stratil, Sze Lin Yoong

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Article in American journal of public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
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  5. Identifying topics for future Cochrane Public Health reviews.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Luke WolfendenLuke Wolfenden and Sam McCrabb are with the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia. Ani Movsisyan and Jan M. Stratil are with the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology and the Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Sze Lin Yoong is with the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Ani MovsisyanLuke Wolfenden and Sam McCrabb are with the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia. Ani Movsisyan and Jan M. Stratil are with the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology and the Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Sze Lin Yoong is with the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Sam McCrabbLuke Wolfenden and Sam McCrabb are with the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia. Ani Movsisyan and Jan M. Stratil are with the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology and the Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Sze Lin Yoong is with the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Jan M StratilLuke Wolfenden and Sam McCrabb are with the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia. Ani Movsisyan and Jan M. Stratil are with the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology and the Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Sze Lin Yoong is with the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Sze Lin YoongLuke Wolfenden and Sam McCrabb are with the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia. Ani Movsisyan and Jan M. Stratil are with the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology and the Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Sze Lin Yoong is with the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For systematic reviews to have an impact on public health, they must report outcomes that are important for decision-making. Systematic reviews of public health interventions, however, have a range of potential end users, and identifying and prioritizing the most important and relevant outcomes represents a considerable challenge.In this commentary, we describe potentially useful approaches that systematic review teams can use to identify review outcomes to best inform public health decision-making. Specifically, we discuss the importance of stakeholder engagement, the use of logic models, consideration of core outcome sets, reviews of the literature on end users' needs and preferences, and the use of decision-making frameworks in the selection and prioritization of outcomes included in reviews.The selection of review outcomes is a critical step in the production of public health reviews that are relevant to those who use them. Utilizing the suggested strategies may help the review teams better achieve this.

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Public HealthReview Literature as TopicEvidence-Based MedicineHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicPractice Guidelines as TopicPublic Health Practice

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PMID33476230
PMCPMC7893343

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