For each report, we i) conducted an authorship analysis by sectoral affiliation; ii) analyzed the types of research evidence cited and categorized the evidence type and institutional nature of the publisher; iii) analyzed key recommendations by extracting recommendations presented in the concluding sections of the documents; and iv) examined the use of indicators.
From each report, and for each intervention area, JB extracted the citations used to support writing on the intervention area, and categorized the evidence type (Table 1) and the institutional nature of the publisher (e.g., peer-review journal, government agency report, etc).
With this in mind, this article aims to assess if, how and why evidence played a role in policy formulation for iCCM in three LMICs, Niger, Kenya and Mozambique, and categorize the patterns of evidence through Weiss' seven models.
The committee developed standard language to categorize the weight of evidence regarding whether Cannabis or cannabinoids use for therapeutic purposes are an effective or ineffective treatment for the prioritized health endpoints of interest.
A simple, hierarchical grading system has been used in this paper to categorize the level of evidence supporting recommendations in the JE surveillance standards (Table 2).
Instead, our framework focuses on the transitions in the four main dimensions of test research questions (population/setting, intervention/index test, comparators/reference test, outcomes) as the main organizing principle to categorize the hierarchy of evidence for test development/performance across the "phases" of research.
Recently, epigenetic studies have provided new molecular evidence to better categorize the CRC subtypes and predict clinical outcomes.
We referred to scientific evidence that was used in the included studies to describe and categorize the concepts.
Trying to categorize the Tin Hat Trio is a mistake.
But they become harder to categorize the more you listen.
