Effects of the Heartbeat Wales programme. Health promotion is a waste of time and money.

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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Should risky treatments be reserved for secondary prevention? Theoretical considerations regarding risk-benefit tradeoffs.Journal of clinical epidemiology · 2012
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2. The economics of primary prevention of cardiovascular disease - a systematic review of economic evaluations.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2007
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3. Criteria for evaluating evidence on public health interventions.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2002
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4. Effects of the Heartbeat Wales programme. Programme that originated in Finland should be adopted.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Effects of the Heartbeat Wales programme over five years on behavioural risks for cardiovascular disease: quasi-experimental comparison of results from Wales and a matched reference area.1998
• Erratum issued

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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