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ArticleIndian journal of palliative care

The Portrait of a Dying Child.

R R Pravin, Tan Ee Kar Enrica, Tan Ah Moy

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Article in Indian journal of palliative care. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

3 authors.

R R PravinDepartment of General Paediatrics, Haematology/Oncology Service, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore.
Tan Ee Kar EnricaDepartment of Paediatric Subspecialties, Haematology/Oncology Service, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore.
Tan Ah MoyDepartment of Paediatric Subspecialties, Haematology/Oncology Service, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The portrait of a dying child is an homage to a child's journey from initial diagnosis to the terminal stages of illness in metastatic neuroblastoma, raising the critical question of the importance of defining a beautiful death - a concept I first came across as a literature student in Henrik Ibsen's renowned tragedy

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Oncologypaediatricpalliative care

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PMID30820120
PMCPMC6388603

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