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ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2015

Should general practice give up the independent contractor status?

Roger Jones, Azeem Majeed, Naureen Bhatti, Peter Murchie, Richard Vautrey, Rebecca Rosen

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Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Rhetoric about NHS reform is misplaced.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2023
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  2. It's time to look again at GP funding.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021
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  3. The influence of training experiences on career intentions of the future GP workforce: a qualitative study of new GPs in England.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2019
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  4. Preference for practice--recent evidence.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2016
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  5. The inevitable demise of the independent contractor status.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Roger JonesBJGP. E-mail: rjones@rcgp.org.uk.
Azeem MajeedProfessor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Imperial College London, and GP Principal, Dr Curran & Partners in Clapham, London. E-mail: a.majeed@imperial.ac.uk.
Naureen BhattiLimehouse Practice, Tower Hamlets, London and Associate Dean, Professional Support Unit, Health Education North West London, working on behalf of Health Education North Central and East London and Health Education South London. E-mail: naureen.bhatti@nhs.net.
Peter MurchieDivision of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen. E-mail: p.murchie@abdn.ac.uk.
Richard VautreyBMA GP Committee, London. E-mail: richard.vautrey@nhs.net.
Rebecca RosenThe Nuffield Trust, London. E-mail: Rebecca.Rosen@nuffieldtrust.org.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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ContractsGeneral PracticeCost-Benefit AnalysisHealth Care ReformHumansState MedicineUnited Kingdom

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PMID26009525
PMCPMC4439820

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