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ReviewClinics in geriatric medicine2015

Symptom management in the older adult: 2015 update.

Thomas J Smith

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Review in Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Opioid use in patients aged 90 years or older with terminal cancer in a palliative care unit: a single-center retrospective observational study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
    Observational
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.

Thomas J SmithPalliative Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Blalock 369, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Electronic address: tsmit136@jhmi.edu.

Funding

Integration of Palliative Care for Cancer Patients on Phase I TrialsR01CA177562 · NCI · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI FERRELL, BETTY R · 2014 to 2018
$6.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA177562
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article updates the 2002 Jamie von Roenn article about "the palliation of commonly observed symptoms in older patients, including pain, neuropsychiatric, gastrointestinal, and respiratory symptoms." When palliative care was last covered in Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, President George W. Bush had just signed the No Child Left Behind Act, Homeland Security was being established, Michael Jackson won the Artist of the Century Award at the American Music Awards, and gas cost $1.61 a gallon. What has changed in the last decade and a half?

Indexed as

PainPain ManagementPalliative CareAgedHumansNeeds AssessmentPain MeasurementPractice Patterns, Physicians'Quality ImprovementSymptom AssessmentDeliriumDepressionNonpharmacologic managementOlder adultsPain managementPalliative carePharmacologic management

Identifiers

PMID25920053
PMCPMC4430327

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