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ArticlePalliative medicine reports2021

Dexamethasone 8 mg for Cancer-Related Fatigue in Inpatients with Advanced Cancer Undergoing Palliative Care: A Multicenter Phase II Trial.

Tomofumi Miura, Ayumi Okizaki, Hideaki Hasuo, Eriko Satomi, Keita Tagami, Kengo Imai, Takashi Kojima, Hironaga Satake, Hiroto Ishiki, Akira Inoue and 1 more

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Article in Palliative medicine reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. A Narrative Review of the Correlation Between Comorbidity and Acute Exacerbation of COPD Patients.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026
    Review
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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

11 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Tomofumi MiuraDepartment of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7031-7279
Ayumi OkizakiInnovation Center for Supportive, Palliative and Psychosocial Care, National Cancer Center Hospital, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Hideaki HasuoDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Japan.
Eriko SatomiDepartment of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Keita TagamiDepartment of Palliative Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8081-5979
Kengo ImaiSeirei Hospice, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Takashi KojimaDepartment of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan.
Hironaga SatakeCancer Treatment Center, Kansai Medical University Hospital, Hirakata, Japan.
Hiroto IshikiDepartment of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Akira InoueDepartment of Palliative Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Takuhiro YamaguchiDivision of Biostatistics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
National Cancer Center Hospital East · JPTohoku University · JPKansai Medical University · JPTokyo National Hospital · JPSeirei Mikatabara General Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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appetitecancer patientscancer-related fatiguedexamethasoneinpatientpalliative care

Identifiers

PMID34927157
PMCPMC8675272
OpenAlexW3213466944

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