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ArticleBMJ global health2018

Reflections on family medicine and primary healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa.

Robert Mash, Amanda Howe, Osa Olayemi, Martha Makwero, Sunanda Ray, Meseret Zerihun, Abraham Gyuse, Felicity Goodyear-Smith

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Article in BMJ global health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

41 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  13. The views of family physicians on National Health Insurance in Gauteng Province, South Africa.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2024
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  15. Family practice research in the African region 2020-2022.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2024
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  17. Opportunities for primary health care in South Africa - Reflections from the USA.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Robert MashDivision of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Amanda HoweDepartment of Population Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Osa OlayemiNyaho Medical Centre, Accra, Ghana.
Martha MakweroSchool of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
Sunanda RayDepartment of Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Meseret ZerihunDepartment of Family Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Abraham GyuseDepartment of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria.
Felicity Goodyear-SmithDepartment of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID29765778
PMCPMC5950631

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