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Trial reportJAMA internal medicine2016

States Worse Than Death Among Hospitalized Patients With Serious Illnesses.

Emily B Rubin, Anna E Buehler, Scott D Halpern

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in JAMA internal medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03455608 (PRO-ACTIVE), which is not on this map. Cited by 104 papers.

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104citing papers in PubMed
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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.

NCT03455608 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

PRO-ACTIVE: Comparing The Effectiveness of Prophylactic Swallow Intervention for Patients Receiving Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity Health Network, TorontoRan2018 to 2024Enrolled952ConditionsDysphagiaArmsRE-ACTIVE, PRO-ACTIVE EAT, PRO-ACTIVE EAT + EXERCISE
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

104 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Incidence and Outcomes of Unplanned Intensive Interventions After Common Inpatient Surgeries: A Population-Based Cohort Study.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2026
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  8. Dyadic-concordance death-preparedness states and end-of-life care received by cancer patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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44 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Emily B RubinPulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia2Fostering Improvement in End-of-Life Decision Science Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Anna E BuehlerFostering Improvement in End-of-Life Decision Science Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Scott D HalpernPulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia2Fostering Improvement in End-of-Life Decision Science Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia3Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia4Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Funding

Training in Critical Care Health Policy ResearchT32HL098054 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Scott D Halpern · 2010 to 2026
$8.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL098054
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Attitude to DeathHealth StatusSurveys and QuestionnairesAgedChronic DiseaseCritical IllnessFemaleHospitals, UniversityHumansInpatientsMaleMiddle AgedPhiladelphiaProspective Studies

Identifiers

PMID27479808
PMCPMC6848972

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