PURLs. Palliative care: earlier is better.

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

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

1. Integrated palliative care in Europe: a qualitative systematic literature review of empirically-tested models in cancer and chronic disease.BMC palliative care · 2016
   Pooled it
2. To what degree is palliative care integrated in guidelines and pathways for adult cancer patients in Europe: a systematic literature review.BMC palliative care · 2016
   Pooled it
3. Missed opportunities: delayed in-hospital palliative care consultations in patients with non-metastatic cancers.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
   Article
4. Perceived and received support among patients with cancer receiving palliative care in Malta: a qualitative study.Scientific reports · 2026
   Article
5. [A threatening imprecision: overcoming biases in the concept of palliative care].Cadernos de saude publica · 2025
   Article
6. Emergency medical services and palliative care: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2023
   Article
7. Emergency medical services: the next linking asset for public health approaches to palliative care?Palliative care and social practice · 2023
   Article
8. Emergency medical services and palliative care: protocol for a scoping review.BMJ open · 2022
   Article
9. Palliative and End-of-Life Care After Severe Stroke.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2022
   Article
10. Medical Cannabis and Utilization of Nonhospice Palliative Care Services: Complements and Alternatives at End of Life.Innovation in aging · 2022
    Article
11. Palliative Care: Too Good to Be True?Rambam Maimonides medical journal · 2020
    Review
12. Hospital palliative care consult improves value-based purchasing outcomes in a propensity score-matched cohort.Palliative medicine · 2019
    Article
13. Prognostic value of pre- and post-treatment health-related quality of life in predicting survival of patients with brain metastases.CNS oncology · 2017
    Article
14. The use of Quality-Adjusted Life Years in cost-effectiveness analyses in palliative care: Mapping the debate through an integrative review.Palliative medicine · 2017
    Review
15. Impact of Race/Ethnicity on Pain Management Outcomes in a Community-Based Teaching Hospital Following Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation.Cureus · 2016
    Article
16. Prevalence and Predictors of Inappropriate Delivery of Palliative Thoracic Radiotherapy for Metastatic Lung Cancer.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2015
    Article
17. Uptake of a web-based oncology protocol system: how do cancer clinicians use eviQ cancer treatments online?BMC cancer · 2013
    Article
18. Control of advanced cancer: the road to chronicity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2011
    Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Early palliative care for patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer.2010

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

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