The saga of Eluana Englaro: another tragedy feeding the media.

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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Diffuse functional brain disconnection syndrome in critically ill patients with COVID-19.Journal of infection and public health · 2021
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2. The state of knowledge of young Italian medicolegal doctors on the law of provisions for informed consent and advance treatment directives: a multi-centric survey two years after the enactment of Law 219 of 2017.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020
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3. Determinants of favourable opinions about euthanasia in a sample of French physicians.BMC palliative care · 2015
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4. End of life in intensive care unit.Translational medicine @ UniSa · 2011
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5. Quality of reporting on the vegetative state in Italian newspapers. The case of Eluana Englaro.PloS one · 2011
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6. 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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7. The role of advance directives in end-of-life decisions in Austria: survey of intensive care physicians.BMC medical ethics · 2010
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8. Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2009. Part III: mechanical ventilation, acute lung injury and respiratory distress syndrome, pediatrics, ethics, and miscellanea.Intensive care medicine · 2010
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9. The Right to Die in Chronic Disorders of Consciousness: Can We Avoid the Slippery Slope Argument?Innovations in clinical neuroscience
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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