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Grading evidence and recommendations for public health interventions: developing and piloting a framework

This provisional framework provides a practical and transparent method for deriving grades of recommendation for public health interventions, based on a synthesis of all relevant supporting evidence from research. The methodology is being piloted, alongside the current NICE methodology, within the development of the public health/ prevention aspects of the HDA/NICE guidance on overweight and obesity.

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