ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1998
Commentary: Meta-analysis is a blunt and potentially misleading instrument for analysing models of service delivery.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Population Health Management in Diabetes Care: Combining Clinical Audit, Risk Stratification, and Multidisciplinary Virtual Clinics in a Community Setting to Improve Diabetes Care in a Geographically Defined Population. An Integrated Diabetes Care Pilot in the North East Locality, Oxfordshire, UK.International journal of integrated care · 2020Article
- Level of control among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus attending diabetic clinic under family medicine compared to diabetic clinic under endocrinology.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2016Article
- Meta-analysis does not allow appraisal of complex interventions in diabetes and hypertension self-management: a methodological review.Diabetologia · 2007Review
- Five-year comparison of diabetic control between community diabetic center and primary health-care centers.Journal of family medicine and primary careArticle
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