Making sense of health needs assessment.

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.

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.

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A scoping review of community health needs and assets assessment: concepts, rationale, tools and uses.BMC health services research · 2023
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2. Need for redefining needs.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2003
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3. Experiences with "rapid appraisal" in primary care: involving the public in assessing health needs, orientating staff, and educating medical students.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
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4. Assessing local health needs in primary care: understanding and experience in three English districts.Quality in health care : QHC · 1998
   Article
5. Development and importance of health needs assessment.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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