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The use of evidence in public governmental reports on health policy: an analysis of 17 Norwegian official reports (NOU)
BMC Health Services Research, 10/07/09

Innvaer S – The reports' evaluations of health evidence in relation to questions of effect lacked transparency and, overall, showed little use of systematic processes. A systematic, explicit and transparent approach, following the standards laid down in the ISQ, may help generate the evidence–based decision–making that Norway, the UK, the EU and the WHO desire and seek. However, policy–makers may find the ISQ criteria for assessing the scientific quality of a report too narrow to adequately inform policy–making.