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| Title |
Supportive care for patients with gastrointestinal cancer
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2004
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| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd003445.pub2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nisar Ahmed, Sam Ahmedzai, Vandana Vora, Sophie Harrison, Silvia Paz |
| Abstract |
Supportive care has traditionally been given to optimise the comfort of patients and their ability to function, as well as to minimise the side-effects of anti-cancer treatments. The scope of modern comprehensive supportive care however is broadening and covers not only specific palliative treatment but non-tumour specific treatment such as social, psychological and spiritual support. In oncology, best supportive care (BSC) has been used as a comparator arm of randomised controlled trials in chemotherapy. However the BSC arm is usually not well defined and its evaluation is therefore difficult because of the heterogeneity of the definitions. A systematic review was undertaken of the evidence from all RCTs of gastrointestinal cancers (includes gastrointestinal/gastric, colorectal/colon cancer but excludes pancreatic cancer trials) which include a BSC/SC arm. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 153 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 151 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 30 | 20% |
| Researcher | 17 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 7% |
| Other | 23 | 15% |
| Unknown | 45 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 49 | 32% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 10% |
| Psychology | 14 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 9% |
| Unknown | 48 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 February 2015.
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#20,011,485
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#10,818
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#56,675
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#35
of 37 outputs
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