Differences between generalists and specialists: knowledge, realism, or primum non nocere?

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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Comparing the preventive behavior of medical students and physicians in the era of COVID-19: Novel medical problems demand novel curricular interventions.Biochemistry and molecular biology education : a bimonthly publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2020
   Trial
2. What We Mean By 'Values in Healthcare': The Importance of Reaching a Consensus.Cureus · 2025
   Article
3. Prescribers' Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors on Antibiotics, Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Resistance in Jordan.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
   Article
4. A comparison of one-year treatment utilization for shoulder osteoarthritis patients initiating care with non-orthopaedic physicians and orthopaedic specialists.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2018
   Article
5. A Brief Overview of English Primary Care in the Last Half Century.Revista espanola de salud publica · 2016
   Article
6. Prescribing quality in medical specialists in isfahan, iran.Iranian journal of pharmaceutical research : IJPR · 2013
   Article
7. Rights, Bunche, Rose and the "pipeline".Journal of the National Medical Association · 2006
   Article
8. Racial and ethnic disparities in access to physicians with HIV-related expertise.Journal of general internal medicine · 2005
   Article
9. Annals of gastroenterology
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Influence of physician specialty on adoption and relinquishment of calcium channel blockers and other treatments for myocardial infarction.2001
• Comment on
  Relation of physician specialty and HIV/AIDS experience to choice of guideline-recommended antiretroviral therapy.2001

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as