Value and Challenges of Using Observational Studies in Systematic Reviews of Public Health Interventions

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¹ Michele Hilton Boon, Peter Craig, S. Vittal Katikireddi, and Hilary Thomson are with the Medical Research Council/Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Jacob Burns and Eva Rehfuess are with the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Ursula Griebler is with the Department for Evidence-Based Medicine and Evaluation, Danube University Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria. Thomas L. Heise is with the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Sasha Shepperd is with the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Lisa Bero is with the School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.

PMID: 35319925
PMCID: PMC8961824
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306658

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Value and Challenges of Using Observational Studies in Systematic Reviews of Public Health Interventions

Michele Hilton Boon et al. Am J Public Health. 2022 Apr.

. 2022 Apr;112(4):548-552.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306658.

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¹ Michele Hilton Boon, Peter Craig, S. Vittal Katikireddi, and Hilary Thomson are with the Medical Research Council/Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Jacob Burns and Eva Rehfuess are with the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Ursula Griebler is with the Department for Evidence-Based Medicine and Evaluation, Danube University Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria. Thomas L. Heise is with the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Sasha Shepperd is with the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Lisa Bero is with the School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.

PMID: 35319925
PMCID: PMC8961824
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306658

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