Managing comorbidities in patients at the end of life.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Deprescribing decisions in palliative care: a qualitative meta-synthesis of multi-stakeholder experiences and influencing factors.BMC palliative care · 2026
   Pooled it
2. Outcomes of deprescribing interventions in older patients with life-limiting illness and limited life expectancy: A systematic review.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2020
   Pooled it
3. Recommendations for (Discontinuation of) Statin Treatment in Older Adults: Review of Guidelines.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020
   Pooled it
4. Does Deprescribing Improve Quality of Life? A Systematic Review of the Literature.Drugs & aging · 2019
   Pooled it
5. Discontinuation of Preventive Medicines in Older People with Limited Life Expectancy: A Systematic Review.Drugs & aging · 2017
   Pooled it
6. Reducing potentially inappropriate medications in palliative cancer patients: evidence to support deprescribing approaches.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2014
   Pooled it
7. Studies to reduce unnecessary medication use in frail older adults: a systematic review.Drugs & aging · 2013
   Pooled it
8. Guiding principles for the care of older adults with multimorbidity: an approach for clinicians: American Geriatrics Society Expert Panel on the Care of Older Adults with Multimorbidity.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2012
   Guideline
9. Academic detailing of general practitioners by a respiratory physician for diagnosis and management of refractory breathlessness: a randomised pilot study.BMC health services research · 2015
   Trial
10. Safety and benefit of discontinuing statin therapy in the setting of advanced, life-limiting illness: a randomized clinical trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2015 · on this map
    Trial
11. Deprescribing for patients nearing end of life: views, barriers and facilitators of palliative care patients, carers and nurses.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
    Article
12. Clinician perspectives on antithrombotic therapy management in advanced cancer: a multinational qualitative study.Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis · 2026
    Article
13. Medications Reported to the Medicare Hospice Program after Medicare Drug Policy Changes, 2014-2018.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2025
    Article
14. Experiences and access of palliative and end of life care for older people from minority ethnic groups: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2024
    Article
15. Cross-sectional study to evaluate patients' medication management with a new model of care: incorporating a pharmacist into a community specialist palliative care telehealth service.BMC palliative care · 2024
    Article
16. Deprescribing: A Prime Opportunity to Optimize Care of Cancer Patients.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023
    Review
17. Perspectives on deprescribing in palliative care.Expert review of clinical pharmacology · 2023
    Review
18. Assessment of the appropriateness of cardiovascular preventive medication in older people: using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method.BMC geriatrics · 2022
    Article
19. Prescription trends at the end of life in a palliative care unit: observational study.BMC palliative care · 2022
    Observational
20. Polytrauma in the Geriatric Population: Analysis of Outcomes for Surgically Treated Multiple Fractures with a Minimum 2 Years of Follow-Up.Advances in therapy · 2022
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Side effects deserve greater emphasis at end of life.2005

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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