Sunk Cost Bias and Withdrawal Aversion.

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.

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.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. On the Low Reliability of Sunk Cost Vignettes.Brain sciences · 2025
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2. Withdrawing versus Withholding Treatments in Medical Reimbursement Decisions: A Study on Public Attitudes.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2024
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3. Withdrawing or withholding treatments in health care rationing: an interview study on ethical views and implications.BMC medical ethics · 2022
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4. Use of Palliative Chemotherapy and ICU Admissions in Gastric and Esophageal Cancer Patients in the Last Phase of Life: A Nationwide Observational Study.Cancers · 2021
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment: Ethically Equivalent?2019
• Comment on
  Withdrawal Aversion and the Equivalence Test.2019

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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