Tue, July 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!
17 Jul, 2018 | 01:52h | UTC
1 – Systematic Review: Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care – Cochrane Library (free)
Summary: Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care – Cochrane Library (free)
“This updated Cochrane Review indicates that nurses can effectively expand the capacity of the primary care workforce”.
2 – Comparison of Antibiotic Prescribing in Retail Clinics, Urgent Care Centers, Emergency Departments, and Traditional Ambulatory Care Settings in the United States – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Overprescription in Urgent Care Clinics—The Fast and the Spurious – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period) AND Urgent care centers often prescribe unnecessary antibiotics – Reuters (free) AND Study spotlights inappropriate prescribing in urgent care – CIDRAP (free)
3 – Clinical Review: Novel therapies for diabetes mellitus in pregnancy – The BMJ (free for a limited period)
4 – 9 in 10 infants worldwide received vaccinations in 2017 – World Health Organization (free)
Commentaries: National Academies target opioid abuse and infectious disease consequences – Emory Health Sciences (free) AND Within opioid abuse epidemic, infectious disease epidemic emerges – Reuters (free)
6 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 16 July 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
Commentaries: No association found between fertility treatment, some types of cancer – ACP Internist (free) AND Fertility treatment does not appear to raise serious cancer risk – OnMedica (free)
Commentaries: Strengthening eye health evidence for children in low-income and middle-income countries (free) AND App screening boosts children’s eye health – Medical Health News (free)
Related: Polypharmacy Guidance, Realistic Prescribing 3 rd Edition, 2018 – Scottish Government Polypharmacy Model of Care Group (free PDF) AND The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF) AND Common ED Medication Errors: Polypharmacy – emDocs (free) AND Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free) AND The other big drug problem: Older people taking too many pills – The Whashington Post (free) AND Routine deprescribing of chronic medications to combat polypharmacy – Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety (free) AND Polypharmacy—an Upward Trend with Unpredictable Effects – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free) AND Clinical Consequences of Polypharmacy in Elderly – Expert Opinion on Drug Safety (free) AND Too Many Meds? America’s Love Affair With Prescription Medication – Consumer Reports (free) AND CaDeN Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free)