The Decision-Making Process for Palliative Sedation for Patients with Advanced Cancer–Analysis from a Systematic Review of Prospective Studies
, Maria Arantzamendi 1,2,*, Johan Menten 3, Sheila Payne 4, Jeroen Hasselaar 5 and Carlos Centeno 1,2,6Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This is a well written and conducted systematic review with a clear focus: the decision-making process for palliative sedation for patients with advanced cancer. This article is focused on decision-making process but it uses the same data as the one published in the article under reference 17. Arantzamendi M; Belar A; Payne S; Rijpstra M; Preston N; Menten J; et al. Clinical Aspects of Palliative Sedation in Prospective Studies. A Systematic Review. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020.
However, the article for this journal focuses on interpersonal dimensions and decision-making process while the other focuses on clinical aspects. The only issue I have with this two articles that the data used is the same ( it looks to me so). The authors are transparent about it. If this does not present as a problem then it can be published as it is. However, I leave it to the editor to make the final decision.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you very much for your comment and for reviewing the article.
Regarding your concern and as you have mentioned, the sources for data extraction were the same in this submitted article and in the published one (Arantzamendi et al.,2020). But as we explained in the methods sections, the articles have different aims so we conducted data extraction in order answer to the aim of each study, so data extraction was focused to the aim in both cases.
Kind regards,
Alazne Belar
Reviewer 2 Report
Please read my report.
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