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ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2026

What is the future of the fit note?

Dipesh P Gopal, Lisa Newington, Shriti Pattani, Kabir Abraham Varghese, Ge Yu, Umesh Kadam, Sarah Dorrington, Austen El-Osta, Lara Shemtob

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Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Dipesh P GopalCentre for Primary Care, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK d.gopal@qmul.ac.uk.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1787-7963
Lisa NewingtonCentre for Bone and Joint Health, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6954-2981
Shriti PattaniDepartment of Primary Care & Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9869-3815
Kabir Abraham VargheseDepartment of Occupational Medicine, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Harrow, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8177-8051
Ge YuKing's Health Economics, Department of Health Service & Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0891-2501
Umesh KadamHealth and Community Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4433-2977
Sarah DorringtonInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-1880
Austen El-OstaSelf-Care Academic Research Unit, Primary Care & Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8772-4938
Lara ShemtobImperial Occupational Health Group, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1187-6329

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID41617391
PMCPMC13044228

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