General practitioners’ clinical decision-making in patients that could have cancer: a vignette study comparing the Baltic states with four Nordic countries

Alexander Rosendahl, Anet Vanaveski, Liina Pilv-Toom, Janis Blumfelds, Vija Siliņa, Mette Brekke, Tuomas Koskela, Aurimas Rapalavičius, Hans Thulesius, Peter Vedsted, Michael Harris

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Original languageEnglish
JournalScandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
Publication statusAcceptance date - 6 Jan 2025

Data Availability Statement

To avoid the risk of identification of individual participants or patients, the datasets generated and analysed during the current study are not publicly available. However, they are available (with any identifying information redacted) from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to all the GPs who participated in the study. We would also like to thank the European GP Research Network for its support, the ICBP for its permission to use some of its vignettes, and Gordon Taylor, Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Exeter, UK, for his help with the statistical analysis.

Keywords

  • Cancer
  • Geography
  • Early diagnosis
  • general practice
  • primary health care

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