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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2016

Should primary care guidelines be written by family physicians? YES.

G Michael Allan

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Reducing the environmental burden of unnecessary investigations.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2025
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  3. Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2022
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  8. Guidelines in family practice-help wanted.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2017
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  9. Primary care guidelines-a resident's perspective.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2017
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  10. Response.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
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  11. Why primary care guidelines are not prepared by family physicians.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
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  12. Response.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
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  13. For family physicians, by family physicians?Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
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  14. Rebuttal: Should primary care guidelines be written by family physicians? NO.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
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  15. Rebuttal: Should primary care guidelines be written by family physicians? YES.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

G Michael AllanProfessor and Director of Evidence-Based Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. mgallan@ualberta.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Physicians, FamilyFamily PracticeHumansMedical WritingPractice Guidelines as TopicPrimary Health Care

Identifiers

PMID27629659
PMCPMC5023334

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