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Why Test study protocol: a UK-wide audit using the Primary Care Academic CollaboraTive (PACT) to explore the reasons for primary care testing

Alexander Burrell, Polly Duncan, Ian Bennett-Britton, Sam Hodgson, Samuel WD Merriel, Salman Waqar, Penny Whiting and Jessica Watson on behalf of the Primary Care Academic Collaborative (PACT)
BJGP Open 2022; 6 (3): BJGPO.2022.0017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2022.0017
Alexander Burrell
1 Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Ian Bennett-Britton
2 Primary Care Research Centre, School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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2 Primary Care Research Centre, School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Samuel WD Merriel
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vol. 6 no. 3 BJGPO.2022.0017
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2022.0017
PubMed 
35508322

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Royal College of General Practitioners
History 
  • Received February 8, 2022
  • Revision received April 14, 2022
  • Accepted April 26, 2022
  • Published online September 28, 2022.

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  1. Alexander Burrell1,
  2. Polly Duncan1,
  3. Ian Bennett-Britton2,
  4. Sam Hodgson2,
  5. Samuel WD Merriel3,
  6. Salman Waqar4,
  7. Penny Whiting1 and
  8. Jessica Watson1,*
  9. on behalf of the Primary Care Academic Collaborative (PACT)
  1. 1 Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  2. 2 Primary Care Research Centre, School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  3. 3 Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx), Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
  4. 4 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    Jessica Watson, jessica.watson{at}bristol.ac.uk
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BJGP Open 2022; 6 (3): BJGPO.2022.0017. DOI: 10.3399/BJGPO.2022.0017
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