What counts as reliable evidence for public health policy: the case of circumcision for preventing HIV infection

BACKGROUND: There is an ongoing controversy over the relative merits of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and non-randomized observational studies in assessing efficacy and guiding policy. In this paper we examine male circumcision to prevent HIV infection as a case study that can illuminate the a...

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Autores principales: Lie, Reidar K, Miller, Franklin G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21453535
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-34

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21453535
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-34

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