Needs assessment in general practice.

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.

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.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Continuing medical education for general practitioners: a practice format.Postgraduate medical journal · 2016
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2. The knowledge-to-action cycle: identifying the gaps.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2010
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3. How to assess your learning needs.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2006
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4. Learning needs assessment: assessing the need.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
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5. Minority ethnic community participation in needs assessment and service development in primary care: perceptions of Pakistani and Bangladeshi people about psychological distress.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 1999
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6. Experiences with "rapid appraisal" in primary care: involving the public in assessing health needs, orientating staff, and educating medical students.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
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7. Health needs assessment. Whose priorities? Listening to users and the public.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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8. Assessment in primary care: practical issues and possible approaches.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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9. Needs assessment: from theory to practice.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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10. Development and importance of health needs assessment.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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