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ReviewPrimary health care research & development2024

World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (WONCA) Europe position paper on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in primary care.

Aaron Poppleton, Sonia Tsukagoshi, Shlomo Vinker, Francois Heritier, Paul Frappé, Fabian Dupont, Peter Sigmund, Mihai Iacob, Josep Vilaseca, Mehmet Ungan and 3 more

Abstract readReviewConsensus Statement
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Review in Primary health care research & development, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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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

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Implementing point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) in UK primary care: current and future perspectives.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2026
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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

13 authors.

Aaron PoppletonSchool of Medicine, Keele University, Newcastle, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3435-6721
Sonia TsukagoshiEuropean Young Family Doctors' Movement, London, UK.
Shlomo VinkerTel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9804-7103
Francois HeritierUnisanté, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Paul FrappéUniversité Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7350-2824
Fabian DupontSaarland University, Homburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2247-5640
Peter SigmundSteirischen Akademie für Allgemeinmedizin, Graz, Austria.
Mihai IacobVictor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-7641-8687
Josep VilasecaUniversity of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1577-5728
Mehmet UnganSchool of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-6078-2177
Camilla Aakjær AndersenCenter for General Practice, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-5933-748X
Thomas FreseUniversity Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9745-5690
David HalataPOCUS iGP, Hošťálková, Czechia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Point-of-Care SystemsPrimary Health CareUltrasonographyEuropeHumansMedicinepoint of careposition statementprimary care, familyultrasound

Identifiers

PMID38651341
PMCPMC11091537

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