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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2023

The value of family medicine: An impossible job, done impossibly well.

Michael R Kolber, Christina S Korownyk, Jennifer Young, Scott Garrison, Jessica Kirkwood, G Michael Allan

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Michael R KolberProfessor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Christina S KorownykProfessor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta.
Jennifer YoungFamily physician practising in Collingwood, Ont.
Scott GarrisonProfessor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta.
Jessica KirkwoodFamily physician and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta.
G Michael AllanDirector of Programs and Practice Support at the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

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 PracticeJob SatisfactionHumansSurveys and Questionnaires

Identifiers

PMID37072193
PMCPMC10112714

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