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ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2001

The physician assistant: would the US model meet the needs of the NHS?

L Hutchinson, T Marks, M Pittilo

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Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing 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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Present condition analysis of physician assistant in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2012
    Article
  6. The contributions of physician assistants in primary care systems.Health & social care in the community · 2012
    Review
  7. GP commissioning consortia: is there a role for physician assistants in routine care?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2010
    Article
  8. Healthcare assistants in general practice: practical and conceptual issues of skill-mix change.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2008
    Article
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  13. Staffing by numbers in the NHS.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

L HutchinsonDepartment of Medical and Health Care Education, St. George's Hospital Medical School of London, UK. linda.hutchinson@uhl.nhs.uk
T Marks
M Pittilo

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Models, OrganizationalPhysician AssistantsHumansState MedicineUnited KingdomUnited States

Identifiers

PMID11719419
PMCPMC1121704

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Registered trials

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