Health Policy
Volume 104, Issue 3 , Pages 206-214 , March 2012

Study-design selection criteria in systematic reviews of effectiveness of health systems interventions and reforms: A meta-review

  • Peter C. Rockers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Andrea B. Feigl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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  • John-Arne Røttingen

      Affiliations

    • Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway
    • Institute of Health and Society, Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
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  • Atle Fretheim

      Affiliations

    • Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway
    • Institute of Health and Society, Department of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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  • David de Ferranti

      Affiliations

    • Results for Development Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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  • John N. Lavis

      Affiliations

    • McMaster Health Forum, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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  • Hans Olav Melberg

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health and Society, Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
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  • Till Bärnighausen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    • Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mtubatuba, South Africa
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, 02115 Boston, MA, USA. Tel.: +1 615 379 0372.

Received 18 September 2011 ,Revised 28 November 2011 ,Accepted 15 December 2011.

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PII: S0168-8510(11)00274-0

doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.12.007

Health Policy
Volume 104, Issue 3 , Pages 206-214 , March 2012