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ArticleBMC palliative care2023

Response to "The opinion of French pulmonologists and palliative care physicians on non-invasive ventilation during palliative sedation at end of life: a nationwide survey''.

Robert Twycross, Christina Faull, David Wenzel, David Oliver

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Article in BMC palliative care, 2023. 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

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Robert TwycrossPalliative Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. robttwy@gmail.com.
Christina FaullPalliative Care, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
David WenzelPalliative Medicine, LOROS Hospice, Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QE, UK.
David OliverPalliative Care, Tizard Centre, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have several major concerns about this article [Guastella et al 2021]. Although it states that it is about palliative sedation, it is not. Rather, it is about the French Claeys Leonetti Law about Continuous Deep Sedation (CDS) at the end of life [Loi n°2016-87].

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Noninvasive VentilationPhysiciansDeathHumansPalliative CarePulmonologistsDiscontinuation of treatmentEnd of lifeNon-invasive ventilationPalliative sedation

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PMID36872316
PMCPMC9987085

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