End-of-life: still an Italian dilemma.

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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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3. A Challenge for Palliative Psychology: Freedom of Choice at the End of Life among the Attitudes of Physicians and Nurses.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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4. Association between education in EOL care and variability in EOL practice: a survey of ICU physicians.Intensive care medicine · 2012
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5. Culture and end of life care: a scoping exercise in seven European countries.PloS one · 2012
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6. End of life in intensive care unit.Translational medicine @ UniSa · 2011
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7. A national survey of Italian physicians' attitudes towards end-of-life decisions following the death of Eluana Englaro.Intensive care medicine · 2011
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8. Guidelines and the medical "art".Intensive care medicine · 2010
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9. The saga of Eluana Englaro: another tragedy feeding the media.Intensive care medicine · 2009
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10. European and Italian IC physicians have increasingly understood the importance of involving the family in the EOL discussion, and of writing EOL decisions in the patient record as commented by Servillo et al.Intensive care medicine · 2009
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11. Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine, 2008: III. Paediatrics, ethics, outcome research and critical care organization, sedation, pharmacology and miscellanea.Intensive care medicine · 2009
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  European and Italian IC physicians have increasingly understood the importance of involving the family in the EOL discussion, and of writing EOL decisions in the patient record as commented by Servillo et al.2009

Authors and funding

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Abstract

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