Towards a framework for evaluating and grading evidence in public health

Highlights • PRECEPT is an ECDC-funded international collaboration of public health institutes and universities. • Objective is to define a framework for assessing evidence in public health. • An international expert meeting was held on 13–14 June 2013 in Berlin/Germany. • Aim was to discuss the dra...

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Published in:Health policy (Amsterdam) 2015-06, Vol.119 (6), p.732-736
Main Authors: Harder, Thomas, Abu Sin, Muna, Bosch-Capblanch, Xavier, Bruno Coignard, de Carvalho Gomes, Helena, Duclos, Phillippe, Eckmanns, Tim, Elder, Randy, Ellis, Simon, Forland, Frode, Garner, Paul, James, Roberta, Jansen, Andreas, Krause, Gérard, Lévy-Bruhl, Daniel, Morgan, Antony, Meerpohl, Joerg J, Norris, Susan, Rehfuess, Eva, Sánchez-Vivar, Alex, Schünemann, Holger, Takla, Anja, Wichmann, Ole, Zingg, Walter, Zuiderent-Jerak, Teun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colleges and universities
Communicable Disease Control - methods
Communicable diseases
Congresses as Topic
Cooperative Behavior
Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control
Diseases
Evidence-based health care
Evidence-Based Practice - methods
GRADE
Grading
Health policy
Humans
Infectious diseases
Internal Medicine
Peer review
PRECEPT
Public Health
Rating
World health organization
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Summary:Highlights • PRECEPT is an ECDC-funded international collaboration of public health institutes and universities. • Objective is to define a framework for assessing evidence in public health. • An international expert meeting was held on 13–14 June 2013 in Berlin/Germany. • Aim was to discuss the draft framework and its application to examples. • We introduce the draft PRECEPT framework and report on the meeting results.
ISSN:0168-8510
1872-6054
1872-6054
DOI:10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.02.010