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ArticleAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2019

A Formative Evaluation of Patient and Family Caregiver Perspectives on Early Palliative Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease across Disease Severity.

Anand S Iyer, J Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Stephanie M Ford, Sheri L Crump Tims, Elizabeth D Sockwell, Nataliya V Ivankova, Cynthia J Brown, Rodney O Tucker, Mark T Dransfield, Marie A Bakitas

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Article in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Anand S Iyer1Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.ORCID 0000-0001-7700-0728
J Nicholas Dionne-Odom4Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine.
Stephanie M Ford3Lung Health Center.
Sheri L Crump Tims4Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine.
Elizabeth D Sockwell4Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine.
Nataliya V Ivankova5School of Nursing, and.
Cynthia J Brown4Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine.
Rodney O Tucker4Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine.
Mark T Dransfield1Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.
Marie A Bakitas4Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine.
Birmingham VA Medical Center · USHealth Center · USPulmonary and Allergy Associates · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

UAB K12 in Patient Centered Outcomes ResearchK12HS023009 · AHRQ · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI SAAG, KENNETH G · 2014 to 2018
$4.0M
Early vs. Later Palliative Cancer Care: Clinical and Biobehavioral EffectsR01NR011871 · NINR · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI BAKITAS, MARIE ANNE · 2009 to 2011
$1.4M
An Upstream Palliative Care Intervention for Rural Family CaregiversR00NR015903 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ODOM, JAMES N. · 2018 to 2020
$727k
UAB Mentoring Program in COPD Patient Oriented ResearchK24HL140108 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI DRANSFIELD, MARK T · 2018 to 2022
$439k
AHRQ HHS K12 HS023009NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL140108NINR NIH HHS R00 NR015903NINR NIH HHS R01 NR011871
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PsychologicalPalliative CareAgedAnxietyCaregiversDepressionFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveQualitative ResearchQuality of LifeRespiratory Function TestsSeverity of Illness IndexcaregiversCOPDpalliative carequalitative researchsymptoms

Identifiers

PMID31039003
PMCPMC6774751
OpenAlexW2942866010

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