Guidelines in general practice: the new Tower of Babel?

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

30 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Implementation of a new guideline in cardiovascular secondary preventive care: subanalysis of a randomized controlled trial.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2016 · on this map
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2. Randomized controlled trial of an informatics-based intervention to increase statin prescription for secondary prevention of coronary disease.Journal of general internal medicine · 2006
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3. Testing the effectiveness of an innovative information package on practitioner reported behaviour and beliefs: the UK Chiropractors, Osteopaths and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists Low back pain ManagemENT (COMPLeMENT) trial [ISRCTN77245761].BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2005
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4. Investigation and management of iron deficiency anaemia in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a simple management prompt.Postgraduate medical journal · 2002
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5. Adaptation of a Guide to Equip Employers to Manage the Gradual Return to Work of Individuals with a Musculoskeletal Disorder.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2019
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6. General Practitioners and Chronic Non-Malignant Pain Management in Older Patients: A Qualitative Study.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016
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7. Only One Third of Tehran's Physicians are Familiar with 'Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines'.International journal of preventive medicine · 2013
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8. Evaluation of fuzzy relation method for medical decision support.Journal of medical systems · 2012
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9. Guidelines for guidelines: are they up to the task? A comparative assessment of clinical practice guideline development handbooks.PloS one · 2012
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10. Care for patients with type 2 diabetes in a random sample of community family practices in ontario, Canada.International journal of family medicine · 2012
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11. Barriers to implementing evidence-based clinical guidelines: a survey of early adopters.The journal of evidence-based dental practice · 2010
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12. The Ontario printed educational message (OPEM) trial to narrow the evidence-practice gap with respect to prescribing practices of general and family physicians: a cluster randomized controlled trial, targeting the care of individuals with diabetes and hypertension in Ontario, Canada.Implementation science : IS · 2007
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13. Evaluation of PROforma as a language for implementing medical guidelines in a practical context.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2006
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14. Interface flow process audit: using the patient's career as a tracer of quality of care and of system organisation.International journal of integrated care · 2004
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15. Type 2 diabetes in family practice. Room for improvement.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2003
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16. [Factors linked to structural quality in the guidelines for clinical practice of physiotherapy].Atencion primaria · 2003
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17. Do guidelines have legal implications?Archives of disease in childhood · 2002
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18. Current and future relevance of guidelines.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2002
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19. [Characteristics of primary care clinical guidelines associated with greater structural quality of the document].Atencion primaria · 2001
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20. Evidence-based preventive practice guidelines. Qualitative study of useful resources on the Internet.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2001
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Corrections and comments

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  Guidelines in general practice. Problem is that guidelines are useful.1999
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  Guidelines in general practice. Post of primary care knowledge officer could be set up.1999

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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