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ArticleThe Journal of pharmacy technology : jPT : official publication of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians2024

Prevalence of Opioid Use in Nursing Homes Over the Last Decade: A Systematic Literature Review.

Astrid Marie Sant, Stephanie Portelli, Clive Ballard, Maria Bezzina-Xuereb, Charles Scerri, Janet Sultana

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Article in The Journal of pharmacy technology : jPT : official publication of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Pain Assessment and Management Among Nursing Home Residents Living With Dementia.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2026
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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

6 authors.

Astrid Marie SantCentral Procurement Unit, Ministry of Health, San Gwann, Malta.
Stephanie PortelliPharmacy Directorate, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.
Clive BallardExeter College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Maria Bezzina-XuerebDepartment of Psychiatry, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.
Charles ScerriDepartment of Pathology, The University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Janet SultanaPharmacy Directorate, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9622-169X

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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dementiaelderlynursing homeopioidssystematic review

Identifiers

PMID38784025
PMCPMC11110733

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