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ArticleNPJ primary care respiratory medicine2014

Coordination of end-of-life care for patients with lung cancer and those with advanced COPD: a letter of response.

Emma-Jane Crawford, Harmesh Moudgil, Koottalai Srinivasan, Thirumalairengarajan Naicker, Nawaid Ahmad

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Article in NPJ primary care respiratory medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Prognostic variables and scores identifying the end of life in COPD: a systematic review.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2017
    Pooled it
  2. The view of pulmonologists on palliative care for patients with COPD: a survey study.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2017
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  3. Development of the ProPal-COPD tool to identify patients with COPD for proactive palliative care.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2017
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  6. We need to stop looking for something that is not there….NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Emma-Jane CrawfordDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Telford, UK.
Harmesh MoudgilDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Telford, UK.
Koottalai SrinivasanDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Telford, UK.
Thirumalairengarajan NaickerDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Telford, UK.
Nawaid AhmadDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Telford, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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FemaleHumansLung NeoplasmsMalePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveTerminal Care

Identifiers

PMID25078963
PMCPMC4373394

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