Has the NTD Community Neglected Evidence-Based Policy?

A systematic appraisal of use of evidence in the most highly cited NTD literature: methods and results. The authors created a database of trials that wrote about “neglected tropical diseases” through careful bibliometric analysis; they then took the ten most cited articles and carried out a content analysis. This examined what the main message of the paper was; who the authors were; and how they cited evidence, particularly randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews. This was then compared with systematic reviews that were available at the time of publication, and inferences drawn. (DOCX)