Republished research: Effect of exercise referral schemes in primary care on physical activity and improving health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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. Numbers are not the whole story: a qualitative exploration of barriers and facilitators to increased physical activity in a primary care based walking intervention.BMC public health · 2014
   Trial
2. 'Forging healthy communities': a service evaluation of a 12-week community-based exercise, nutrition, behaviour change and peer-support programme.BMC public health · 2025
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3. Medical licensing examinations in both Sweden and the US favor pharmacology over lifestyle.Preventive medicine reports · 2021
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4. The Northumberland Exercise Referral Scheme as a Universal Community Weight Management Programme: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Outcomes, Expectations and Experiences across a Social Gradient.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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5. Use of Traditional and Complementary Medicine as Self-Care Strategies in Community Health Centers: Cross-Sectional Study in Urban Pearl River Delta Region of China.Medicine · 2016
   Observational
6. Collaboration of general practitioners and exercise providers in promotion of physical activity a written survey among general practitioners.BMC family practice · 2015
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7. Exercise prescriptions given by GPs to sedentary patients attending chronic disease clinics in health centres - The effect of a very brief intervention to change exercise behavior.Journal of family medicine and primary care
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Corrections and comments

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  Effect of exercise referral schemes in primary care on physical activity and improving health outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis.2011

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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