Dialysis: Can we predict death in patients on dialysis?

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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Dialysis in the frail elderly--a current ethical problem, an impending ethical crisis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2013
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2. Ageism vs. the technical imperative, applying the GRADE framework to the evidence on hemodialysis in very elderly patients.Clinical interventions in aging · 2013
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3. Are there alternatives to hemodialysis for the elderly patient with end-stage renal failure?Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2012
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4. Optimal hemodialysis vascular access in the elderly patient.Seminars in dialysis
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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