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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2017

Periodic preventive health visits: a more appropriate approach to delivering preventive services: From the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

Richard Birtwhistle, Neil R Bell, Brett D Thombs, Roland Grad, James A Dickinson

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Richard BirtwhistleProfessor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont, and was Vice Chair of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC). birtwhis@queensu.ca.
Neil R BellProfessor of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and was a member of the CTFPHC.
Brett D ThombsProfessor and William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Que, and Chair of the CTFPHC.
Roland GradAssociate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University, Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute in Montreal and a member of the CTFPHC.
James A DickinsonProfessor of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta and was a member of the CTFPHC.
Alberta Health Services · CADawson College · CAMcGill University Health Centre · CAQueen's University · CAUniversity of Alberta · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Preventive MedicineCanada

Identifiers

PMID29138150
PMCPMC5685441
OpenAlexW2978025803

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