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ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2020

Is there a place for point-of-care ultrasound in UK primary care?

Erica di Martino, Camilla Aakjær Andersen, Troels Mengel-Jørgensen, Martin Bach Jensen, Stephen Bradley, Richard D Neal

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Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing 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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Implementing point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) in UK primary care: current and future perspectives.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2026
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  2. Review
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  5. GP point-of-care ultrasound in the UK.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021
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  6. The future of diagnosis in general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Erica di MartinoDivision of Primary Care, Public Health and Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Camilla Aakjær AndersenCenter for General Practice, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark.
Troels Mengel-JørgensenCenter for General Practice, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark.
Martin Bach JensenCenter for General Practice, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark.
Stephen BradleyDivision of Primary Care, Public Health and Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Richard D NealDivision of Primary Care, Public Health and Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Point-of-Care SystemsPoint-of-Care TestingHumansPrimary Health CareUltrasonographyUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID32586800
PMCPMC7319672

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