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ArticleThe Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics2023

When Public Health Goes Wrong: Toward a New Concept of Public Health Error.

Itai Bavli

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Article in The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

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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.

  1. Framing, Narratives, and the Overdose Crisis.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2025
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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

1 author.

Itai BavliUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER, CANADA.ORCID 0000-0002-7323-0435

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies of public health decisions that have had harmful effects tend to disagree about what constitutes a public health error. Debates exist about whether public health errors must be culpable or not, as well as about what the criteria for judging public health errors should be.

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Public HealthHumansCOVID-19Opioid EpidemicPublic Health ErrorPublic Health EthicsPublic Health Failure

Identifiers

PMID37655561
PMCPMC10881261

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