Physicians just need to be better trained to provide the best care at the end-of-life.

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A Scoping Review of End-of-Life Discussions and Palliative Care: Implications for Neurological Intensive Care in Latin America and the Caribbean.Journal of palliative medicine · 2025
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2. The ten barriers to appropriate management of patients at the end of their life.Intensive care medicine · 2015
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3. Factors that contribute to physician variability in decisions to limit life support in the ICU: a qualitative study.Intensive care medicine · 2013
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Corrections and comments

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  Association between education in EOL care and variability in EOL practice: a survey of ICU physicians.2012

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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