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ReviewCritical care nursing clinics of North America2017

Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine to Treat Pain and Agitation in Dementia: A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials from Long-Term Care with Potential Use in Critical Care.

Alison R Anderson, Jie Deng, Robert S Anthony, Sebastian A Atalla, Todd B Monroe

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In one paragraph

Review in Critical care nursing clinics of North America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Experimentally evoked pain in Alzheimer's disease.Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners · 2021
    Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Trial
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Population-Focused Approaches for Proactive Chronic Pain Management in Older Adults.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2021
    Article
  8. [Pain in dementia].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2021
    Review
  9. Article
  10. Review
  11. Review
  12. Palliative Care in Advanced Dementia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020
    Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Pain in dementia.Pain reports
    Article
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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alison R AndersonVanderbilt University School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, 461 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240, USA. Electronic address: alison.r.anderson@vanderbilt.edu.
Jie DengVanderbilt University School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, 461 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
Robert S AnthonyVanderbilt University School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, 461 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
Sebastian A AtallaVanderbilt University School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, 461 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
Todd B MonroeVanderbilt University School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, 461 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 461 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
Vanderbilt University · US

Funding

Brain Activation and Pain Reports in People with Alzheimer's DiseaseK23AG046379 · NIA · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MONROE, TODD BRYANT · 2015 to 2018
$627k
Age-Related Differences in Psychophysical and Neurobiological Response to PainR21AG045735 · NIA · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI COWAN, RONALD L, MONROE, TODD BRYANT · 2014 to 2015
$426k
NIA NIH HHS K23 AG046379NIA NIH HHS L30 AG045540NIA NIH HHS R21 AG045735
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The risk of pain in adults with dementia worsens with advancing age. Painful comorbidities may be underassessed and inadequately treated. Receiving treatment in critical care settings may indicate greater occurrences of pain and complications. Pain may exacerbate behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), such as agitation. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies may alleviate pain and BPSD, and continuity of therapy may bolster these therapeutic effects. This review did not reveal an apparent benefit of aromatherapy; however, improvements in BPSD have been shown previously. Massage and human interaction did demonstrate efficacy in reducing BPSD and pain.

Indexed as

Randomized Controlled Trials as TopicAromatherapyComplementary TherapiesCritical CareDementiaHumansLong-Term CarePainPsychomotor AgitationAgitationAromatherapyCAMDementiaEssential oilMassagePainTouch

Identifiers

PMID29107312
PMCPMC5687304
OpenAlexW2756871461

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Registered trials

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