Evidence map›Paper›PMID 15043173›Full record

ReviewAnnals of family medicine

Chronic illness, comorbidities, and the need for medical generalism.

Kevin Grumbach

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Review in Annals of family medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
43citing 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

43 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Age, morbidity, and time to death: End-of-life expenditures on health care for the young-old population.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025
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  13. A single combination gene therapy treats multiple age-related diseases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  14. Aging with Hemophilia: The Challenge of Appropriate Drug Prescription.Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases · 2019
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  16. What does it take to be a good GP?Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2017
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  20. Multiple conditions: exploring literature from the consumer perspective in Australia.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Kevin Grumbach

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Chronic DiseaseComorbidityAttitude of Health PersonnelFamily PracticeHolistic HealthHumans

Identifiers

PMID15043173
PMCPMC1466552

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.