Direct access to diagnostic services.

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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Direct Access for Patients to Diagnostic Testing and Results Using eHealth: Systematic Review on eHealth and Diagnostics.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022
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2. General practitioner referrals to one-stop clinics for symptoms that could be indicative of cancer: a systematic review of use and clinical outcomes.Family practice · 2019
   Pooled it
3. Direct access cancer testing in primary care: a systematic review of use and clinical outcomes.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018
   Pooled it
4. Direct access from general practice to transvaginal ultrasound for early detection of ovarian cancer: a feasibility study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2021
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5. Primary care management of headaches and how direct-access MRI fits: a qualitative study of UK general practitioners' views.BMJ open · 2017
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6. Achieving a balance between the physical and the psychological in headache.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2017
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7. No more neurophobia: welcome neurology in general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2009
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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