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ReviewLung cancer management2020

The role of palliative care in the management of patients with lung cancer.

Irena Tan, Kavitha Ramchandran

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In one paragraph

Review in Lung cancer management, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
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

2 authors.

Irena TanStanford Cancer Center, 875 Blake Wilbur Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6258-8194
Kavitha RamchandranStanford Cancer Center, 875 Blake Wilbur Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9033-819X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Palliative care (PC) is the care of patients and their families with serious illness and is rapidly becoming an important part of the care of cancer patients. Patients with advanced lung cancer are a highly symptomatic population of patients and clearly experience benefits in quality of life and potentially benefits in overall survival when PC is incorporated early on after diagnosis. However, referrals to PC are still reliant on clinical judgment of patient prognosis and symptom burden. Moving forward, improving the integration of PC and lung cancer care will require more efficient real-time screening of patient symptoms, which may be accomplished through the use of patient-reported outcomes.

Indexed as

end-of-life caremodels of care deliverypalliative carepatient-reported outcomesquality of lifereferral criteriasymptom management

Identifiers

PMID33318757
PMCPMC7729591
OpenAlexW3046102229

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Registered trials

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