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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2015

Artificial nutrition and hydration in advanced dementia.

Irene Ying

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

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

  1. Enteral tube feeding for people with severe dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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  8. Palliative Care of the Patient with Dementia.Delaware journal of public health · 2021
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  12. Challenges in end-of-life dementia care.Evidence-based mental health · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Irene YingPalliative care consultant at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ont, Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Aged, 80 and overAlzheimer DiseaseEnteral NutritionFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansHypodermoclysis

Identifiers

PMID25767168
PMCPMC4369630

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