Primary care practitioners' diagnostic action when the patient may have cancer: an exploratory vignette study in 20 European countries.
Michael HarrisMette BrekkeGeert-Jan DinantMagdalena EstevaRobert D HoffmanMercè Marzo-CastillejoPeter MurchieAna Luísa NevesEmmanouil SmyrnakisPeter VedstedIsabelle Aubin-AugerJoseph AzuriKrzysztof BuczkowskiNicola BuonoGergana ForevaSvjetlana Gašparović BabićEva JacobTuomas KoskelaDavorina PetekMarija Petek ŠterAida PuiaJolanta Sawicka-PowierzaSven StreitHans ThulesiusBirgitta WeltermannGordon TaylorPublished in: BMJ open (2020)
When given vignettes of patients with a low but significant possibility of cancer, more than half of PCPs across Europe would take diagnostic action, most often by ordering diagnostic tests. However, there are substantial between-country variations.