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ArticleBMJ supportive & palliative care2020

Advance care planning and longer survival in the terminally ill: a randomised controlled trial unexpected finding.

Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Marianne Hjorth Skorstengaard, Trine Brogaard, Elisabeth Bendstrup, Anders Løkke, Susanne Aagaard, Henrik Wiggers, Pernille Andreassen, Anders Bonde Jensen

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Article in BMJ supportive & palliative care, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mette Asbjoern NeergaardPalliative Care Unit, Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark mettneer@rm.dk.ORCID 0000-0003-3309-5838
Marianne Hjorth SkorstengaardDepartment of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-0079-0677
Trine BrogaardResearch Unit for General Practice, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Elisabeth BendstrupDepartment of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Anders LøkkeDepartment of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Susanne AagaardDepartment of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Henrik WiggersDepartment of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Pernille AndreassenDepartment of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Anders Bonde JensenDepartment of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Aarhus University Hospital · DKAarhus University · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PMID31822479
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