Evidence map›Paper›PMID 11950738›Full record

ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2002

Evolving general practice consultation in Britain: issues of length and context.

George K Freeman, John P Horder, John G R Howie, A Pali Hungin, Alison P Hill, Nayan C Shah, Andrew Wilson

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In one paragraph

Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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67citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. The relationship between consultation length, process and outcomes in general practice: a systematic review.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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  3. Utility of COPD Assessment Test (CAT) in primary care consultations: a randomised controlled trial.Primary care respiratory journal : journal of the General Practice Airways Group · 2013
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  7. Eliciting patients' concerns: a randomised controlled trial of different approaches by the doctor.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2004
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  10. Ambient scribes in general practice - help or hindrance?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2026
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  14. Understanding access to general practice through the lens of candidacy: a critical review of the literature.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2024
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  19. The Phenomena of Naturopathic Practitioner: Predictors of a High Patient Throughput.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2017
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  20. An assessment of patient waiting and consultation time in a primary healthcare clinic.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2017
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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

George K FreemanCentre for Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London W6 8RP. g.freeman@ic.ac.uk
John P Horder
John G R Howie
A Pali Hungin
Alison P Hill
Nayan C Shah
Andrew Wilson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Office VisitsPatient SatisfactionFamily PracticeHumansState MedicineTime FactorsUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID11950738
PMCPMC101402

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