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ArticleBMJ supportive & palliative care2021

Anticipatory syringe pumps: benefits and risks.

Ben Bowers, Kristian Pollock, Andrew Dickman, Richella Ryan, Stephen Barclay

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Article in BMJ supportive & palliative care, 2021. 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
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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.

  1. Learning from end-of-life injectable medication patient safety incidents in the community: a mixed-methods analysis.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2026
    Article
  2. Challenges to timely access to out-of-hours end-of-life medications: a qualitative study in UK primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2025
    Article
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

5 authors.

Ben BowersDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK bb527@medschl.cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6772-2620
Kristian PollockNottingham Centre for the Advancement of Research into Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Andrew DickmanAcademic Palliative and End of Life Care Centre, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.
Richella RyanArthur Rank Hospice Charity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Stephen BarclayDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4505-7743

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

SyringesTerminal CareHumansInfusion PumpsRisk Assessmentclinical assessmentdrug administrationhome carenursing home caresymptoms and symptom managementterminal care

Identifiers

PMID33468505
PMCPMC8380901

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