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ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2021

Helping GPs to diagnose children's cancer.

David A Walker

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Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Trend in cancer incidence and mortality among children and adolescents in Mato Grosso, 2001-2018.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2025
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  8. Childhood bone tumours in primary care: helping GPs to identify 'the needle in the haystack'.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 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

1 author.

David A WalkerChildren's Brain Tumour Research Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham. This article was written on behalf of the Children Cancer and Leukaemia Group Child Cancer Smart project team, working with Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust and Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre at the University of Nottingham.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Helping BehaviorNeoplasmsChildHumans

Identifiers

PMID33619048
PMCPMC7906616

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