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ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2021

Palliative care is increasing, but curative care is growing even faster in the last months of life.

Scott Murray, Jordi Amblàs

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Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Post-recurrence management of malignant glial brain tumors: therapeutic strategies, evidence and limitations, palliative care, terminal sedation, and end-of-life considerations.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Scott MurrayGP, Emeritus Professor of Primary Palliative care, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Email: Scott.Murray@ed.ac.uk@scottamurrayed.
Jordi AmblàsGeriatrician, Central Catalonia Chronicity Research Group; Chair of Palliative Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Vic, Spain.@jordiamblas.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Palliative CareTerminal CareHumans

Identifiers

PMID34446408
PMCPMC8378580

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