Use of post-graduate students' research in evidence informed health policies: a case study of Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda

Table 1 Types of documents citing products of post-graduate students’ research dissertations at MakCHS 1996–2010

Type of document^a	All citations N = 4230	Unique dissertations cited N = 1172
Primary research work	4,037 (95.4%)	196 (17%)
Evidence syntheses	193 (4.6%)	85 (7.2)
Policy related^b	22 (0.5%)	16 (1.4%)
Systematic reviews	130 (3.0%)	67 (5.7)
Non-systematic reviews	35 (0.8%)	26 (2.2%)
Cost-effectiveness analyses	7 (0.2%)	5 (0.4%)

^aDocuments include peer and non-peer reviewed ones, published and grey literature
^bBroadly characterised a document as ‘policy related’ if this document highlighted key health issue or provided direction to the field such as that guidelines, working papers, consensus statements or programme reports

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