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ArticleSouth African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care2024

The contribution of Specialist Family Physicians to South Africa's private sector: A position statement.

Gail L Ashford, Sheena Mathew, Gareth A Fray, Idowu Olusola Irinoye, Andrew Ross, Klaus Von Pressentin, Robert Mash

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Article in South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Exploring stakeholders' experiences on implementing family medicine in urban South Africa.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2025
    Article
  2. Lessons learnt from advocating for family medicine in South Africa.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2025
    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

7 authors.

Gail L AshfordPrivate Practice, Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa; and Specialist Family Physicians in Private, South African Society of Specialist Family Physicians, Johannesburg. ashfordg@gmail.com.
Sheena Mathew
Gareth A Fray
Idowu Olusola Irinoye
Andrew Ross
Klaus Von Pressentin
Robert Mash

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Private SectorFamily PracticeHumansPhysicians, FamilySouth AfricaSpecializationadvocatecostfunderGPSpecialistSpecialist Family Physician

Identifiers

PMID39354786
PMCPMC11538079

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