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. 2012;9(3):e1001187.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001187. Epub 2012 Mar 20.

Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence

Simon Lewin  1 , Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Sandy Oliver, Elie A Akl, Gunn E Vist, John N Lavis, Davina Ghersi, John-Arne Røttingen, Peter Steinmann, Metin Gulmezoglu, Peter Tugwell, Fadi El-Jardali, Andy Haines
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Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence

Simon Lewin et al. PLoS Med. 2012.

Abstract

In the third paper in a three-part series on health systems guidance, Simon Lewin and colleagues explore the challenge of assessing how much confidence to place in evidence on health systems interventions.

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Conflict of interest statement

The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services received funds from the WHO for the contributions of DD, PS, LB, SL, and XBC to developing a Handbook to produce health systems guidance, and some of this work is reported in this article. DG is a member of the PLoS Medicine Editorial Board. EAA and GEV are members of the GRADE Working Group. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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