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ArticleBJGP open2017

Effective management of depression in primary care: a review of the literature.

Bruce Arroll, Fiona Moir, Tony Kendrick

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Article in BJGP open, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Vulnerability to anxiety and depression symptoms co-occurring among adult patients at family medicine clinics in Najran University Hospital, Saudi Arabia.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2026
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  3. Role of primary care in depression relapse: a qualitative study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2025
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  6. An evidence-based first consultation for depression: nine key messages.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018
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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

3 authors.

Bruce ArrollElaine Gurr Chair of General Practice and Primary Health Care, and Director of the Goodfellow Unit, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Fiona MoirSenior Lecturer, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Tony KendrickProfessor of Primary Care, Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

depressionprimary carereview

Identifiers

PMID30564653
PMCPMC6169950

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