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Downloaded from Primary care practitioner diagnostic action when the patient may have cancer: a vignette survey in 20 European countries ForJournal: peerBMJ Open review only Manuscript ID bmjopen-2019-035678 Article Type: Original research Date Submitted by the 20-Nov-2019 Author: Complete List of Authors: Harris, Michael; University of Bath, Department for Health; Universität Bern, Berner Institut für Hausarztmedizin (BIHAM) Brekke, Mette; University of Oslo, Department of General Practice and General Practice Research Unit Dinant, Geert-Jan; Maastricht University, Dept of General Practice Esteva, Magdalena; Gerencia Atencio Primaria de Mallorca, Unidad de Investigación Hoffman, Robert; Tel Aviv University, Department of Family Medicine Marzo, Mercè; Unitat de Suport a la Recerca Costa de Ponent, IDIAP Jordi Gol, Murchie, Peter; University of Aberdeen, Division of Applied Health Science Neves, Ana Luísa; Imperial College London, Centre for Health Policy; http://bmjopen.bmj.com/ University of Porto, Also CINTESIS (Centre for Health Technology and Services Research) and MEDCIDS (Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences) Smyrnakis, Emmanouil; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Laboratory of Primary Health Care, General Practice and Health Services Research Vedsted, Peter; Research Unit for General Practice, University of Aarhus Aubin-Auger, Isabelle; Universite Paris Diderot UFR de Medecine, General Practice Azuri, Joseph; Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine on September 28, 2021 by guest. 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Protected copyright. 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 For peer review only - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/site/about/guidelines.xhtml Page 3 of 47 BMJ Open 1 2 1 3 Primary care practitioner diagnostic action when the patient may have BMJ Open: first published as 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035678 on 31 October 2020. Downloaded from 4 5 6 2 cancer: a vignette survey in 20 European countries 7 8 9 10 3 Authors 11 12 13 4 Michael Harris (corresponding author), Department for Health, University of Bath, Claverton 14 15 16 5 Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK; telephone: +44 1761 241366; fax: none. Also: Institute of Primary 17 18 6 Health Care Bern (BIHAM),For Universitypeer of review Bern, Bern, Switzerland only 19 20 21 7 [email protected] 22 23 8 Mette Brekke, Department of General Practice and General Practice Research Unit, University 24 25 26 9 of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. [email protected] 27 28 29 10 Geert-Jan Dinant, Department of General Practice, Maastricht University, Maastricht, 30 31 11 Netherlands. [email protected] 32 33 34 12 Magdalena Esteva, Research Unit, Majorca Primary Health Care Department, Balearic Islands 35 36 13 Health Research Institute (IdISBa), Preventive Activities and Health Promotion Network, 37 http://bmjopen.bmj.com/ 38 14 Carlos III Institute of Health (RedIAPP-RETICS), Palma, Spain. [email protected] 39 40 41 15 Robert D. Hoffman, Department of Family Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 42 43 44 16 [email protected] 45 on September 28, 2021 by guest. Protected copyright. 46 17 Mercè Marzo-Castillejo, Unitat de Suport a la Recerca, IDIAP Jordi Gol, Institut Català de la 47 48 49 18 Salut, Barcelona, Spain. [email protected] 50 51 52 19 Peter Murchie, Division of Applied Health Sciences - Academic Primary Care, University of 53 54 20 Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. 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Downloaded from 4 24 University of Porto, Porto, Portugal [email protected] 5 6 7 25 Emmanouil Smyrnakis, Laboratory of Primary Health Care, General Practice and Health 8 9 26 Services Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. 10 11 27 [email protected] 12 13 14 28 Peter Vedsted, The Research Unit for General Practice, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. 15 16 17 29 [email protected] 18 For peer review only 19 20 30 Isabelle Aubin-Auger, Department of General Practice, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France. 21 22 31 [email protected] 23 24 25 32 Joseph Azuri, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.