Improving access needs a whole systems approach. And will be important in averting crises in the millennium winter.

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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Systematic review of recent innovations in service provision to improve access to primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2004
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2. A systematic review of the effect of primary care-based service innovations on quality and patterns of referral to specialist secondary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
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3. A cluster randomised controlled trial of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a 'whole systems' model of self-management support for the management of long- term conditions in primary care: trial protocol.Implementation science : IS · 2012
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20. Applying community-oriented primary care methods in British general practice: a case study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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Corrections and comments

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  Improving access to medical care. General practice cooperatives are coping well.1999
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  Improving access to medical care. Telephone consultations are the answer.1999

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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