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Table 5 Comments and reactions to making health equity plausibility judgments

From: Systematic reviews need to consider applicability to disadvantaged populations: inter-rater agreement for a health equity plausibility algorithm

Reason for answer

theory-10; personal experience- 11; empirical data-3 guesses-4;

Other information needed

more intervention specific information and data

how big are the differences being sought?

how does comparator overlap with intervention delivery

was information available from trials?

consider including community cluster trials

Need information on how intervention was delivered

General comments

Important to consider these issues in design of SR-5

Difficult- 4;

Interesting to consider these issues-5;

Subjective-6;

Why only gender and SES- need to consider other factors (e.g. sexual orientation)- 2

Country differences are important- e.g. if universal drug coverage is available-1

Accessibility of drugs is less of an issue-1

Ask questions about heterogeneity-1

Intervention delivery is important for understanding

 

Easy-1