Telephone use in primary care. Programme to shape demand has been started in several practices.

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

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Telephone consultations may not save time.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
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2. Online medicine for pregnant women.International journal of telemedicine and applications · 2014
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3. Providing cell phone numbers and e-mail addresses to patients: The patient's perspective, a cross sectional study.Israel journal of health policy research · 2012
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4. Providing cell phone numbers and email addresses to Patients: the physician's perspective.BMC research notes · 2011
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5. Comparison of face-to-face and telephone consultations in primary care: qualitative analysis.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2010
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6. Telephone consulting in primary care: a triangulated qualitative study of patients and providers.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2009
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7. Telephone consultations are routinely used.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
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