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ArticleQuality in health care : QHC1996

Quality improvement: an international commodity?

R Grol

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Article in Quality in health care : QHC, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. What do patients expect from their physicians?Iranian journal of public health · 2010
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  3. Attitudes to the use of health outcome questionnaires in the routine care of patients with diabetes: a survey of general practitioners and practice nurses.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1998
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  4. Quality improvement in general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1997
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  5. Mental health care in the community: what should be on the agenda?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1997
    Article
  6. Systematic design of healthcare processes.Quality in health care : QHC · 1997
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  7. Quality improvement: a multiprofessional commodity?Quality in health care : QHC · 1996
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

R Grol

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Total Quality ManagementCultural CharacteristicsGuidelines as TopicQuality Assurance, Health CareState MedicineUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID10157266
PMCPMC1055346

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