"What Do You Get? Nothing": A Qualitative Analysis of the Financial Impact of Family Caregiving for a Dying Relative at Home in Germany.

Sally Pieper, Alina Kasdorf, Raymond Voltz, Julia Strupp

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. 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.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it

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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 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

Relevance and consequence of economic and social resources of severely ill persons and their informal caregivers at the end-of-life: a systematic review of qualitative studies.BMC palliative care · 2025
Pooled it
Toward compassionate workplaces: Employers' and employees' perspectives on serious illness, dying, death, and grief: Findings from a nationwide online survey in Germany.PloS one · 2026
Article
Hospital-Based Emergency and Trauma Care-The Expanding Epicenter of the US Healthcare Delivery System.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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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

4 authors.

Sally PieperDepartment of Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.

Alina KasdorfDepartment of Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4982-9288

Raymond VoltzDepartment of Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.

Julia StruppDepartment of Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3135-2693

Funding

Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Woman and Youth (BMFSFJ) #ZMI8-2521BAP369

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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caregiver burdendying at homeend of lifefamily caregiversfinancial loss

Identifiers

PMID40218107

DOI10.3390/healthcare13070810

PMCPMC11988587

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