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ArticleBJGP open2017

Medical tourism: the role of the primary care provider.

Jamie L Weis, R Barry Sirard, Patrick A Palmieri

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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 2 papers.

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2citing 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Jamie L WeisPhysician Assistant and Medical Service Trip Leader, Urgent Care & Primary Care, Coordinated Health, Allentown, Pennsylvania, US.
R Barry SirardPrimary Care Physician, Urgent Care & Primary Care, Coordinated Health, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, US.
Patrick A PalmieriDirector, Institute for Health Services Research, Universidad Privada del Norte, Lima, Peru.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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family practicemedical tourismorgan traffickingprimary health caretransplant tourismtravel medicine

Identifiers

PMID30564654
PMCPMC6169951

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