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ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2018

Should We Bury "The Good Death"?

Alexander K Smith, Vyjeyanthi S Periyakoil

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Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Our Patients Want to Die at Home. Are They Prepared for It?Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025
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  7. Well-Being and the Good Death.Ethical theory and moral practice : an international forum · 2020
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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

2 authors.

Alexander K SmithDivision of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Vyjeyanthi S PeriyakoilDivision of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

Funding

Trial of strategies to communicate genetic information to different ethnic and racial subpopulationsU54MD010724 · NIMHD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CULLEN, MARK RICHARD · 2016 to 2021
$16.3M
Working Memory in Parkinson Disease: A Cognitive & Systems Neuroscience ApproachP50AG047366 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HENDERSON, VICTOR · 2015 to 2019
$7.9M
Stanford Medicine Center for Longevity and Healthy Aging Research Education CoreP30AG059307 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ZOU, JAMES · 2018 to 2025
$4.9M
Palliative care needs and outcomes for dementia patientsR01AG062239 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI PERIYAKOIL, VYJEYANTHI S · 2018 to 2023
$3.7M
In-reach for Successful Aging through Education(i-SAGE)R25MD006857 · NIMHD · PALO ALTO VETERANS INSTIT FOR RESEARCH · PI PERIYAKOIL, VYJEYANTHI S · 2011 to 2015
$1.7M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG059307NIA NIH HHS P50 AG047366NIA NIH HHS R01 AG062239NIMHD NIH HHS R25 MD006857NIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD010724
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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DeathGeriatricsAgingChoice BehaviorHumansPalliative Care

Identifiers

PMID29508391
PMCPMC5992042

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