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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2015

Advance care planning: Let's start sooner.

Michelle Howard, Carrie Bernard, Amy Tan, Marissa Slaven, Doug Klein, Daren K Heyland

2 registry-linked trialsAbstract read
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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. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 30 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT03239639 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

A Randomized Control Trial of an Advance Care Planning Intervention to Engaged Substitute Decision-makers in Primary Care

TypeinterventionalSponsorMcMaster UniversityRan2018 to 2019Enrolled61ConditionsChronic IllnessArmsAdvance care planning education session, Wait list control
NCT03434626 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

A Randomized Trial of ACP/GCD Care Pathway in Primary Care in Alberta

TypeinterventionalSponsorMcMaster UniversityRan2017 to 2018Enrolled120ConditionsChronic Illness, ComorbiditiesArmsACP Education, Usual care
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Complex advance care planning intervention in general practice (ACP-GP): a cluster-randomised controlled trial.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2024
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  4. Advance Care Planning in German General Practice: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study on Patients' Expectations and Experiences.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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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

6 authors.

Michelle HowardAssistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. mhoward@mcmaster.ca.
Carrie BernardAssistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and Lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
Amy TanAssistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Marissa SlavenAssistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Division of Palliative Care at McMaster University.
Doug KleinAssociate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta.
Daren K HeylandDirector of the Clinical Evaluation Research Unit at Kingston General Hospital and Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.

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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Advance Care PlanningCanadaCommunicationFamily PracticeHumansPrimary Health Care

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PMID26273075
PMCPMC4541424

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