Knowing patients' preferences for place of death: how possible or desirable?

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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Do Patients Want to Die at Home? A Systematic Review of the UK Literature, Focused on Missing Preferences for Place of Death.PloS one · 2015
   Pooled it
2. End-of-life care conversations with heart failure patients: a systematic literature review and narrative synthesis.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011
   Pooled it
3. Death and the Oldest Old: Attitudes and Preferences for End-of-Life Care--Qualitative Research within a Population-Based Cohort Study.PloS one · 2016
   Trial
4. Dying comfortably in very old age with or without dementia in different care settings - a representative "older old" population study.BMC geriatrics · 2017
   Article
5. Living in uncertain times: trajectories to death in residential care homes.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2014
   Article
6. Actual and preferred place of death of home-dwelling patients in four European countries: making sense of quality indicators.PloS one · 2014
   Article
7. Place of death for the 'oldest old': > or =85-year-olds in the CC75C population-based cohort.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2010
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  GPs' awareness of patients' preference for place of death.2009

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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