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Table 1.

Safety netting as defined in the literature

Definition	Citation
Definition	Ablett-Spence, 2012⁴³	Almond, 2009¹³	Balla, 2012³⁷	Bankhead, 2011¹⁶	Bertheloot, 2016³⁸	Buntinx, 2011³⁶	Campion-Smith, 2017⁶	CRUK, 2016⁵	Chafer, 2003¹⁹	de Vos-Kerkhof, 2015⁵³	Hirst, 2018⁴⁴	Jones, 2013⁴⁶	Jones, 2014⁴⁷	Kaufman, 2008²⁰	McKelvey, 2010²¹	MDDUS, 2016²³	MDU, 2018²²	Mitchell, 2013⁴⁹	Morgan, 2014²⁵	NPSA, 2010⁵¹	Neighbour, 1987¹⁴	NICE, 2015⁸	NICE, 2013⁹	Nicholson, 2016⁵⁵	Pearson, 2007²⁷	Rees, 2017⁵²	Roland, 2014³³	RCGP, 2011²⁸	Singh, 2016²⁹	Walter, 2014⁴¹
Consultation technique				●	●			●	●						●	●					●			●	●				●
Tool to manage diagnostic uncertainty		●	●	●	●	●		●	●					●	●		●	●	●		●		●	●
Mechanism to inform patients of red-flag symptoms		●			●						●				●	●					●			●	●		●
Contingency plan or patient review	●	●		●	●	●		●	●		●	●	●	●		●		●		●	●	●		●	●	●				●
Provision of information to ensure patients re-present	●			●	●			●		●	●		●			●	●			●				●		●	●	●	●	●
Means of empowering patients																●				●					●				●	●
Observation for/following potentially serious illness					●					●	●						●						●	●
Active monitoring of patients	●	●		●				●									●		●	●		●		●
Follow-up and monitoring of investigations				●			●	●												●		●		●
Follow-up and monitoring of urgent referrals				●			●	●												●		●		●
Administrative process				●			●	●																●
Medicolegal protection for doctor		●	●	●													●

CRUK = Cancer Research UK. MDDUS = Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland. MDU = Medical Defence Union. NICE = National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. NPSA = National Patient Safety Agency. RCGP = Royal College of General Practitioners.