The general practitioner with a special interest: new opportunities or the end of the generalist practitioner?

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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. Clinical and economic benefit of general practitioner integration to a symptomatic breast service.Irish journal of medical science · 2016
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6. Counting on commitment; the quality of primary care-led diabetes management in a system with minimal incentives.BMC health services research · 2011
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7. Understanding the work of general practitioners: a social science perspective on the context of medical decision making in primary care.BMC family practice · 2008
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9. General practitioners with a special interest in public health; at last a way to deliver public health in primary care.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2005
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10. General practitioners with a special interest in respiratory medicine: national survey of UK primary care organisations.BMC health services research · 2005
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11. Impact of a positive hepatitis C diagnosis on homeless injecting drug users: a qualitative study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2005
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12. Integrated primary mental health care: threat or opportunity in the new NHS?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2004
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13. The role of UK general practitioners with special clinical interests: implications for policy and service delivery.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2004
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15. Severe acute respiratory syndrome--novel virus, recurring theme.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
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Corrections and comments

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  GPs with special interests.2002
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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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