TY - JOUR T1 - RCGP Research Paper of the Year 2014: partnership with patients is an important theme in primary care research JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 595 LP - 595 DO - 10.3399/bjgp15X687469 VL - 65 IS - 640 AU - Chris Salisbury Y1 - 2015/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/65/640/595.abstract N2 - The Research Paper of the Year, awarded by the Royal College of General Practitioners, highlights the best research published in the previous year across six clinical categories, with one overall winner. One theme that was evident this year was the importance of partnership with patients.The overall winner of the Research Paper of the Year 2014 was a fascinating study by Jon Banks and colleagues.1 They presented 3469 people with vignettes describing different sets of symptoms, giving them information about the risk that these symptoms represented cancer, along with details of likely treatment and prognosis if cancer was identified. This is very topical, given the recently published National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on investigation of suspected cancer, which are based on a general principle of recommending investigation for … ER -