An optimal design for the study of palliative sedation-making somewhat better pictures.

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.

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.

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Current Status and Future Directions of Research on Palliative Sedation.Journal of hospice and palliative care · 2022
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2. Association between continuous deep sedation and survival time in terminally ill cancer patients.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Effect of continuous deep sedation on survival in patients with advanced cancer (J-Proval): a propensity score-weighted analysis of a prospective cohort study.2016

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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