TY - JOUR T1 - Royal College of General Practitioners Research Paper of the Year 2012 JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 426 LP - 427 DO - 10.3399/bjgp13X670750 VL - 63 IS - 613 AU - Chris Salisbury A2 - , Y1 - 2013/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/63/613/426.abstract N2 - The Royal College of General Practitioners Research Paper of the Year Awards celebrate the best research on general practice and primary care. The awards for papers published in 2012 have been announced and highlight outstanding research in seven categories, with one overall Research Paper of the Year chosen from these category winners. Eighty-six papers were submitted to the competition representing the wide range of topics and methods which are relevant to primary care research.In the Cancer category, the panel selected Fiona Walter’s well-conducted randomised controlled trial from Cambridge of the MoleMate diagnostic aid: Effect of adding a diagnostic aid to best practice to manage suspicious pigmented lessons in primary care: randomised controlled trial.1 Interestingly, the research team found that the systematic application of best practice guidelines following a history and naked eye examination (the control group) led to an impressive 96% sensitivity and 91% specificity for detecting suspicious lesions, which was more accurate than the MoleMate system.In the Diabetes category the winner was Rebecca Simmons et al: Screening for type 2 diabetes and population mortality over 10 years (ADDITION-Cambridge): a cluster-randomised controlled trial.2 This paper described the long-term follow-up of patients at high risk of type 2 diabetes who were included in a cluster randomised trial in which practices … ER -