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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien

Typology of virtual primary care in Canada: Making the implications clear.

Sheryl M Spithoff, Ewan Affleck, Lindsay Hedden

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Rocket Doctor mischaracterized in article.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2025
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  9. Virtual care: Problems, progress, possibilities.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
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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

3 authors.

Sheryl M SpithoffAssistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario and Women's College Research Institute in Toronto.
Ewan AffleckSenior Medical Advisor-Health Informatics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta in Edmonton.
Lindsay HeddenAssistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID39638395
PMCPMC11634275

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