A Response to: Letter to the Editor Regarding "Neurophysiological Assessments During Continuous Sedation Until Death Put Validity of Observational Assessments Into Question: A Prospective Observational Study".

Stefaan Six, Jan Poelaert, Steven Laureys, Olivier Maîresse, Peter Theuns, Johan Bilsen, Reginald Deschepper

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Article in Pain and therapy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

7 authors.

Stefaan SixMental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090, Jette, Belgium. stefaan.six@vub.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3584-6818

Jan PoelaertDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090, Jette, Belgium.

Steven LaureysComa Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre and Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liège, Avenue de l'hôpital 11, 4000, Liège, Belgium.

Olivier MaîresseDepartment of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1000, Brussels, Belgium.

Peter TheunsDepartment of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1000, Brussels, Belgium.

Johan BilsenMental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090, Jette, Belgium.

Reginald DeschepperMental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090, Jette, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Analgesia Nociception IndexComfort assessmentContinuous sedation until deathNeurophysiological monitoringPain assessmentPalliative medicinePalliative sedationUnconsciousnessWavelet anesthetic value

Identifiers

PMID35286600

DOI10.1007/s40122-022-00369-x

PMCPMC9098768

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