Palliative care in CKD: the earlier the 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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

1. [A threatening imprecision: overcoming biases in the concept of palliative care].Cadernos de saude publica · 2025
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2. Understanding by older patients of dialysis and conservative management for chronic kidney failure.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2015
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3. Withdrawal from Dialysis and Palliative Care for Severely Ill Dialysis Patients in terms of Patient-Centered Medicine.Case reports in nephrology · 2013
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4. Chapter 5: Referral to specialists and models of care.Kidney international supplements · 2013
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5. Discussions of the kidney disease trajectory by elderly patients and nephrologists: a qualitative study.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2012
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6. Kidney supportive care: an update of the current state of the art of palliative care in CKD patients.Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia
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Corrections and comments

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

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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