Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31940238›Full record

ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2020

The Quality of End-of-Life Care among ICU versus Ward Decedents.

Joshua A Rolnick, Mary Ersek, Melissa W Wachterman, Scott D Halpern

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In one paragraph

Article in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The Struggle Continues: Improving Outcomes for Surrogate Decision-Makers after the ICU.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025
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  13. Association of ICU Admission and Outcomes in Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2022
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  16. Update in Critical Care 2020.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2021
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  20. When Intensive Care Becomes Good End-of-Life Care.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Joshua A RolnickDivision of General Internal Medicine.
Mary ErsekDivision of General Internal Medicine.
Melissa W WachtermanVeterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts.
Scott D HalpernPalliative and Advanced Illness Research Center, and.
General Department of Preventive Medicine · VNBrigham and Women's Hospital · USMental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers · US

Funding

Improving the fairness of RCTs among patients with acute and chronic respiratory failureK24HL143289 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Scott D Halpern · 2018 to 2026
$1.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL143289
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

HospitalizationHospital MortalityIntensive Care UnitsQuality of Health CareAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHospital UnitsHumansMaleMiddle AgedTerminal Carehealth services researchpalliative careterminal care

Identifiers

PMID31940238
PMCPMC7124720
OpenAlexW2999948783

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Registered trials

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