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ArticleBMJ open2020

Knowledge and attitude of healthcare professionals to frailty screening in primary care: a systematic review protocol.

Ijeoma Okpechi, Gurch Randhawa, David Hewson

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Article in BMJ open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Why are frailty indices not used systematically during preoperative spine consultations?Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ijeoma OkpechiInstitute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, Bedfordshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0850-1112
Gurch RandhawaInstitute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, Bedfordshire, UK gurch.randhawa@beds.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2289-5859
David HewsonInstitute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, Bedfordshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7656-4000
University of Bedfordshire · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionFrailty is an increasingly common condition in which physiological decline as a result of accumulated deficits renders older people more vulnerable to adverse outcomes. An increasing range of frailty screening programmes have been introduced in primary care to identify frail older people in order to deliver appropriate interventions. However, limited information on the knowledge and attitude of healthcare professionals (HCPs) with respect to frailty screening is known. The aim of this systematic review is to provide evidence on the knowledge and attitude of HCP in terms of frailty screening, and potentially identify barriers and facilitators to frailty screening to improve implementation of frailty screening in primary care. METHODS/

designA systematic review of qualitative research will be conducted. Databases searched will be MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PsycINFO and Web of Science from January 2001 to August 2019. Methods will be reported based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Population, interest, context and study design methodology was used to develop inclusion and exclusion criteria with HCPs as population, frailty screening as interest and knowledge or attitude of HCPs to frailty screening as context. Studies with a qualitative methodology or a mixed-method design where the qualitative component is analysed separately will also be included. Quality appraisal will be carried out using the Joanna Briggs Institute appraisal tool for qualitative studies. Data will be extracted from each selected study with thematic framework analysis used to synthesise findings. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This systematic review does not require ethical approval as primary data will not be collected. The findings will be disseminated at conferences and in a relevant academic journal. This review will assist HCPs and relevant stakeholders to tackle the challenges of frailty screening in primary care. PROSPERO REGISTRATION NUMBER: CRD42019159007.

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FrailtyAgedAged, 80 and overDelivery of Health CareHealth PersonnelHumansPrimary Health CareQualitative ResearchSystematic Reviews as Topicgeriatric medicinehealth policyprotocols & guidelines

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PMID32616492
PMCPMC7333811
OpenAlexW3039522827

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