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Intergenerational Decision Making: The Role of Family Relationships in Medical Decision Making.

Jody L Lin, Ellen A Lipstein, Eve Wittenberg, Djin Tay, Robert Lundstrom, Gari Lyn Lundstrom, Saadia Sediqzadah, Davene R Wright

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Review in MDM policy & practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Jody L LinDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9964-7984
Ellen A LipsteinJames M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3488-8971
Eve WittenbergCenter for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Djin TayCollege of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Robert LundstromSalt Lake City, Utah.
Gari Lyn LundstromSalt Lake City, Utah.
Saadia SediqzadahDepartment of Psychiatry, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Davene R WrightDepartment of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8574-4572
University of Utah · USCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · USHarvard University · USSt. Michael's Hospital · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A symposium held at the 42nd annual Society for Medical Decision Making conference on October 26, 2020, focused on intergenerational decision making. The symposium covered existing research and clinical experiences using formal presentations and moderated discussion and was attended by 43 people. Presentations focused on the roles of pediatric patients in decision making, caregiver decision making for a child with complex medical needs, caregiver involvement in advanced care planning, and the inclusion of spillover effects in economic evaluations. The moderated discussion, summarized in this article, highlighted existing resources and gaps in intergenerational decision making in four areas: decision aids, economic evaluation, participant perspectives, and measures. Intergenerational decision making is an understudied and poorly understood aspect of medical decision making that requires particular attention as our society ages and technological advances provide new innovations for life-sustaining measures across all stages of the lifespan.

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advance care planningchildren with special health care needsend of lifeshared decision makingspillover effects

Identifiers

PMID34734118
PMCPMC8559218
OpenAlexW3150171986

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