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ArticleNeurology2023

Challenges to Brain Death in Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act: The UDDA Revision Series.

James L Bernat

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Article in Neurology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A structured analysis of the concept of brain death.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2026
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  2. Addressing the Problem of Brain Death Misdiagnosis.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

James L BernatFrom the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH. bernat@dartmouth.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1128-0442
Dartmouth College · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Brain DeathDeathHumans

Identifiers

PMID37400259
PMCPMC10351312
OpenAlexW4382933874

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.