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ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2024

Reforming primary palliative care: a call to arms.

Emilie Couchman, Lucy Pocock, Ben Bowers, Jenny Harlock, Stephen Barclay, Suzanne Richards, Sarah Mitchell

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Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Equitable inclusion of patients with cancer on the palliative care register: a systematic review in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2025
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  5. Lived experiences of end-of-life care at home in the UK: a scoping review of qualitative research.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2024
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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

7 authors.

Emilie CouchmanSarum Health Group/ Medvivo, Wiltshire; PhD Student, Mesothelioma UK Research Centre, University of Sheffield, Sheffield.ORCID 0000-0001-5157-0431
Lucy PocockNational Institute for Health and Care Research Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, Bristol.ORCID 0000-0002-6039-9813
Ben BowersWellcome Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Honorary Nurse Consultant in Palliative Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.ORCID 0000-0001-6772-2620
Jenny HarlockWarwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry.ORCID 0000-0002-2300-750X
Stephen BarclayGP, and Honorary Consultant Physician in Palliative Care, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.ORCID 0000-0002-4505-7743
Suzanne RichardsProfessor of Health Services Research, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds.ORCID 0000-0002-9910-6870
Sarah MitchellClinical Associate Professor of Palliative and End of Life Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds.ORCID 0000-0002-1477-7860

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Health Services AccessibilityPalliative CareHumans

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PMID38154949
PMCPMC10755987

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