Considering the vulnerabilities of surrogate decision-makers when obtaining consent for critical care research.

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.

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3. Parental opinions regarding consent for observational research of no or minimal risk in the pediatric intensive care unit.Journal of intensive care · 2019
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4. Perspectives of Decisional Surrogates and Patients Regarding Critical Illness Genetic Research.AJOB empirical bioethics · 2016
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5. Does difficulty functioning in the surrogate role equate to vulnerability in critical illness research? Use of path analysis to examine the relationship between difficulty providing substituted judgment and receptivity to critical illness research participation.Journal of critical care · 2015
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6. Surrogate receptivity to participation in critical illness genetic research: aligning research oversight and stakeholder concerns.Chest · 2015
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7. Research to inform the consent-to-research process.Intensive care medicine · 2013
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8. ICU research: the impact of invasiveness on informed consent.Intensive care medicine · 2013
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9. Real-time perspectives of surrogate decision-makers regarding critical illness research: findings of focus group participants.Chest · 2012
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Why substitute decision makers provide or decline consent for ICU research studies: a questionnaire study.2012
• Comment on
  Factors affecting consent in pediatric critical care research.2012

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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