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. 2015 Jun;119(6):732-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.02.010. Epub 2015 Mar 23.

Towards a framework for evaluating and grading evidence in public health

Thomas Harder  1 , Muna Abu Sin  2 , Xavier Bosch-Capblanch  3 , Bruno Coignard  4 , Helena de Carvalho Gomes  5 , Phillippe Duclos  6 , Tim Eckmanns  2 , Randy Elder  7 , Simon Ellis  8 , Frode Forland  9 , Paul Garner  10 , Roberta James  11 , Andreas Jansen  5 , Gérard Krause  12 , Daniel Lévy-Bruhl  4 , Antony Morgan  8 , Joerg J Meerpohl  13 , Susan Norris  6 , Eva Rehfuess  14 , Alex Sánchez-Vivar  15 , Holger Schünemann  16 , Anja Takla  2 , Ole Wichmann  2 , Walter Zingg  17 , Teun Zuiderent-Jerak  18
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Towards a framework for evaluating and grading evidence in public health

Thomas Harder et al. Health Policy. 2015 Jun.
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Abstract

The Project on a Framework for Rating Evidence in Public Health (PRECEPT) is an international collaboration of public health institutes and universities which has been funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) since 2012. Main objective is to define a framework for evaluating and grading evidence in the field of public health, with particular focus on infectious disease prevention and control. As part of the peer review process, an international expert meeting was held on 13-14 June 2013 in Berlin. Participants were members of the PRECEPT team and selected experts from national public health institutes, World Health Organization (WHO), and academic institutions. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the draft framework and its application to two examples from infectious disease prevention and control. This article introduces the draft PRECEPT framework and reports on the meeting, its structure, most relevant discussions and major conclusions.

Keywords: Evidence-based health care; GRADE; Infectious diseases; PRECEPT; Public health.

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