Forty-seven minutes a year for the patient.

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.

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.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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3. Do GPs really provide 47 minutes a year for the patient?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2012
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4. Four minutes for a patient, twenty seconds for a relative - an observational study at a university hospital.BMC health services research · 2010
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5. End-of-life care for patients with COPD in the community setting.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2008
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6. Who cares? The James Mackenzie Lecture 2006.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2007
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7. Provision of primary care in different countries.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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8. Longer appointments for all!Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2006
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9. Up close and personal? Continuing pressure on the doctor-patient relationship in the QOF era.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2006
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10. Quality at general practice consultations: cross sectional survey.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
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11. Issues at the interface between primary and secondary care in the management of common respiratory disease. Introduction.Thorax · 1999
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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