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SynthesisPalliative medicine2019

Symptom prevalence and quality of life of patients with end-stage liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Jen-Kuei Peng, Nilay Hepgul, Irene J Higginson, Wei Gao

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Synthesis in Palliative medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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136citing papers in PubMed, 10 pooled it
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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.

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

136 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jen-Kuei Peng1 Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9997-9842
Nilay Hepgul1 Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, UK.
Irene J Higginson1 Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, UK.
Wei Gao1 Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAged, 80 and overEnd Stage Liver DiseaseFemaleHumansLiver CirrhosisMaleMiddle AgedPalliative CarePrevalenceQuality of LifeSeverity of Illness IndexEnd-stage liver diseasehepatocellular carcinomaliver cirrhosismeta-analysispalliative careprevalencequality of lifesymptom assessment

Identifiers

PMID30345878
PMCPMC6291907

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