A waiting crisis?

Laura Salisbury, Lisa Baraitser, Jocelyn Catty, Kelechi Anucha, Stephanie Davies, Michael J Flexer, Martin D Moore, Jordan Osserman

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

8citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

Ethical aspects of waiting lists in neurosurgery.Acta neurochirurgica · 2026
Review
An international qualitative exploration informing the development of a national sport mental health service for young athletes.Discover mental health · 2026
Article
Access Improvement in Healthcare: Be Quick, but Don't Hurry?Learning health systems · 2026
Article
Physical Activity Levels and Barriers Among Young People with Mental Disorders: A Mixed Methods Analysis Supporting the Development of a National Sport Mental Health Clinic.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
Article
Beyond the Queue: Exploring Waiting Practices in the Stories of Patients With Breast Cancer.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024
Article
The influence of waiting times and sociopolitical variables on public trust in healthcare: A cross-sectional study of the NHS in England.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2024
Article
(Un)timely care: findings from the Waiting Times project.Wellcome open research · 2024
Article
The shadows of waiting and care: on discourses of waiting in the history of the British National Health Service.Wellcome open research · 2023
Article

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

8 authors.

Laura SalisburyDepartment of English and Creative Writing (LS), Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (LS, KA, MJF, MDM), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK; Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK (LB, SD, JO); Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK (JC).

Lisa BaraitserDepartment of English and Creative Writing (LS), Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (LS, KA, MJF, MDM), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK; Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK (LB, SD, JO); Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK (JC).

Jocelyn CattyDepartment of English and Creative Writing (LS), Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (LS, KA, MJF, MDM), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK; Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK (LB, SD, JO); Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK (JC).

Kelechi AnuchaDepartment of English and Creative Writing (LS), Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (LS, KA, MJF, MDM), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK; Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK (LB, SD, JO); Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK (JC).

Stephanie DaviesDepartment of English and Creative Writing (LS), Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (LS, KA, MJF, MDM), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK; Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK (LB, SD, JO); Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK (JC).

Michael J FlexerDepartment of English and Creative Writing (LS), Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (LS, KA, MJF, MDM), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK; Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK (LB, SD, JO); Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK (JC).

Martin D MooreDepartment of English and Creative Writing (LS), Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (LS, KA, MJF, MDM), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK; Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK (LB, SD, JO); Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK (JC).

Jordan OssermanDepartment of English and Creative Writing (LS), Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (LS, KA, MJF, MDM), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, UK; Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK (LB, SD, JO); Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK (JC).

Funding

Wellcome Trust 205400Wellcome Trust 205400/Z/16/Z

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID36873458

DOI10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00238-6

PMCPMC7614272

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