ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2014
General health checks don't work.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed.
- Association of health screening participation with cardiovascular mortality and suicide in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic Disparities in the Association Between All-Cause Mortality and Health Check-Up Participation Among Healthy Middle-Aged Workers: A Nationwide Study.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Article
- Medicalization Defined in Empirical Contexts - A Scoping Review.International journal of health policy and management · 2020Article
- Why do general practitioners not refer patients to behaviour-change programmes after preventive health checks? A mixed-method study.BMC family practice · 2019Article
- Validation of a health screening questionnaire for primary care using Rasch models.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2019Article
- Do cardiovascular disease prevention programs in northern Sweden impact on population health? An interrupted time series analysis.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Digital Recruitment and Acceptance of a Stepwise Model to Prevent Chronic Disease in the Danish Primary Care Sector: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Article
- A qualitative study of cardiovascular disease risk communication in NHS Health Check using different risk calculators: protocol for the RIsk COmmunication in NHS Health Check (RICO) study.BMC family practice · 2019Article
- Effect of using cardiovascular risk scoring in routine risk assessment in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: an overview of systematic reviews.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2019Review
- Improving life expectancy in people with serious mental illness: should we place more emphasis on primary prevention?The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2017Article
- Participation in preventive health check-ups among 19,351 women in Germany.Preventive medicine reports · 2017Article
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- A retrospective evaluation of the NHS Health Check Programme in a multi-ethnic population.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2016Article
- Scottish Keep Well health check programme: an interrupted time series analysis.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2016Article
- Primary care-based screening for cardiovascular risk factors in patients with psoriasis.The British journal of dermatology · 2016Article
- Impact of the National Health Service Health Check on cardiovascular disease risk: a difference-in-differences matching analysis.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2016Article
- [General health checks and individual out-of-pocket health services].Der Internist · 2015Article
- Cardiovascular screening in severe mental illness still awaits an evidence base.BJPsych bulletin · 2015Article
- A qualitative investigation of non-response in NHS health checks.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2015Article
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