The value of conducting periodic health checks.

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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Are interventions to increase the uptake of screening for cardiovascular disease risk factors effective? A systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC family practice · 2017
   Pooled it
2. Short-term effectiveness of face-to-face periodic occupational health screening versus electronic screening with targeted follow-up: results from a quasi-randomized controlled trial in four Belgian hospitals.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2022
   Trial
3. Estimating the gains of early detection of hypertension over the marginal patient.PloS one · 2021
   Article
4. 'I should have taken that further' - missed opportunities during cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with psoriasis in UK primary care settings: a mixed-methods study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2016
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5. Lessons learned from England's Health Checks Programme: using qualitative research to identify and share best practice.BMC family practice · 2015
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6. Differences in the perceived role of the healthcare provider in delivering vascular health checks: a Q methodology study.BMC family practice · 2013
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7. It's time for rational rationing.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2013
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Corrections and comments

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  General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.2012

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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