Daily Archives: June 22, 2017
Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes
22 Jun, 2017 | 16:32h | UTCValue-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes – Harvard Business Review (a few articles per month are free) (RT @pash22 see Tweet)
“We believe that value-based care, implemented using lean principles and in conjunction with an ongoing, community-wide effort to address social determinants of health, can reduce health spending and deliver on the promise of better health”
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – 30:2 or just keep going?
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:30h | UTCCardiopulmonary resuscitation – 30:2 or just keep going? – by Scott Munro, in Evidently Cochrane (free) (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)
“Untrained bystander CPR had better outcomes when given telephone advice from EMS services to perform continuous CPR, rather than interrupted CPR with rescue breaths”. For trained EMS professionals, “it is possible that there is little or no difference between the two approaches”.
Public Health in Humanitarian Crises
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:57h | UTCJust started! Public Health in Humanitarian Crises – Free Online Course from the Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
“This course introduces a set of public health problems experienced by people affected by natural disasters and/or conflict. It discusses the many changes in people’s lives when they are uprooted by a disaster, ranging from changes in disease patterns, access to health care, livelihoods, shelter, sanitary conditions, nutritional status, etc”.
Infection-related microcephaly after the 2015 and 2016 Zika virus outbreaks in Brazil
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:12h | UTCInfection-related microcephaly after the 2015 and 2016 Zika virus outbreaks in Brazil: a surveillance-based analysis – The Lancet (free registration required)
Invited commentary: Risk of Zika-related microcephaly: stable or variable? (free registration required)
Commentary: Study: First Zika microcephaly wave in Brazil was outlier – CIDRAP (free)
See also a Research Letter from the same authors and related commentaries in our March 31st issue (see #4).
“Zika spread rapidly in Latin America. We braced ourselves for a vast international epidemic of Zika-related microcephaly; but when it did not happen we asked ourselves why.” (from invited commentary)
Making the Case for Midwifery
22 Jun, 2017 | 16:19h | UTCOpinion: If we want to save children’s lives, this is what we need to do – World Economic Forum (free)
Related infographic: Making the Case for Midwifery (free)
See also WHO’s Every Newborn Action Plan and related commentaries in our June 22 issue (see #1)
According to the text, investing in midwifes could prevent up to 2/3 of global maternal and newborn deaths and yield a 16-fold return on investment
Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:14h | UTCHost and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals – Nature (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Spillover Beasts: Which Animals Pose The Biggest Viral Risk? – NPR Goats and Soda (free) (RT @NPRGoatsandSoda see Tweet with interesting illustration) AND Bats Are the Number-One Carriers of Disease – TIME Health (free) AND Where in the world will the next emerging disease appear? – CNN (free text and video) AND Bats really do harbor more dangerous viruses than other species – Science (free) AND Whence new plagues? – The Economist (a few articles per month are free)
“The majority of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, with viruses that originate in wild mammals of particular concern”
WHO bids goodbye to Dr Chan and celebrates her achievements
22 Jun, 2017 | 00:53h | UTCWHO bids goodbye to Dr Chan and celebrates her achievements – World Health Organization (Source: WHO Newsletter)
Report 1: Ten years of transformation: Making WHO fit for purpose in the 21st century (free)
Report 2: Ten years in public health 2007-2017 (free)
Report 3: Healthier, fairer, safer: the global health journey 2007–2017 (free)
Related: My decade leading the WHO: dirty fights and steps toward universal coverage – by By Margaret Chan, Via STAT News (free)
“As Dr Margaret Chan’s term as Director-General of WHO comes to an end, we’d like to share some of the successes, setbacks and enduring challenges of the past decade in global public health.”
Every Newborn Action Plan – World Health Organization
22 Jun, 2017 | 01:55h | UTCEvery Newborn Action Plan – World Health Organization (free) (RT @WHO see Tweet with infographic)
Related report from UK: Each Baby Counts – Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (free PDF) Each Baby Counts Homepage (free resources) AND Reducing baby deaths and brain injuries during childbirth – BBC News (free)
Every year, 2.7 million babies die in the first 28 days of life. 75% of these deaths are preventable.
An update on Zika virus infection
22 Jun, 2017 | 15:20h | UTCAn update on Zika virus infection – The Lancet (free registration required)
“Update on Zika virus infection (2017): review focuses on important updates & gaps in the knowledge” (RT @TheLancet see Tweet)
Is aircraft noise exposure associated with cardiovascular disease and hypertension?
22 Jun, 2017 | 03:56h | UTCIs aircraft noise exposure associated with cardiovascular disease and hypertension? Results from a cohort study in Athens, Greece – Occupational and Environmental Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Noise May Raise Blood Pressure Risk – New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Long term exposure to aircraft noise linked to high blood pressure – The BMJ, via EurekAlert (free) AND Live Near an Airport? Nighttime Airplane Noise May Cause Hypertension – Medscape (free registration required)
Cohort study suggests a possible association.
Performance Improvement: Phenytoin Toxicity
22 Jun, 2017 | 00:02h | UTCPerformance Improvement: Phenytoin Toxicity – JAMA (free)
Interesting case of medication error and prevention of subsequent adverse events (RT @JAMA_current see Tweet)
Thu, June 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!
22 Jun, 2017 | 00:07h | UTC
1 – Every Newborn Action Plan – World Health Organization (free) (RT @WHO see Tweet with infographic)
Related report from UK: Each Baby Counts – Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (free PDF) Each Baby Counts Homepage (free resources) AND Reducing baby deaths and brain injuries during childbirth – BBC News (free)
Every year, 2.7 million babies die in the first 28 days of life. 75% of these deaths are preventable.
2 – WHO bids goodbye to Dr Chan and celebrates her achievements – World Health Organization (Source: WHO Newsletter)
Report 1: Ten years of transformation: Making WHO fit for purpose in the 21st century (free)
Report 2: Ten years in public health 2007-2017 (free)
Report 3: Healthier, fairer, safer: the global health journey 2007–2017 (free)
Related: My decade leading the WHO: dirty fights and steps toward universal coverage – by By Margaret Chan, Via STAT News (free)
“As Dr Margaret Chan’s term as Director-General of WHO comes to an end, we’d like to share some of the successes, setbacks and enduring challenges of the past decade in global public health.”
3 – Your vitamin D tests and supplements are probably a waste of money – VOX (free)
Related: Why Are So Many People Popping Vitamin D? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“Screening for vitamin D has exploded — with no good evidence that it helps people.”
4 – Performance Improvement: Phenytoin Toxicity – JAMA (free)
Interesting case of medication error and prevention of subsequent adverse events (RT @JAMA_current see Tweet)
5 – Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Ten Things Physicians and Patients Should Question – Choosing Wisely (free) (RT @ChooseWiselyCA see Tweet)
“New Choosing Wisely recommendations list! @SOGCorg identifies 10 tests, treatments to question in obstetrics and gynecology”
6 – ACR Thyroid Imaging, Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS): White Paper of the ACR TI-RADS Committee – Journal of the American College of Radiology (free, and legal, PDF via Unpawall)
Commentary: New ultrasound scoring system for thyroid nodules to reduce unnecessary biopsies – University of Alabama at Birmingham, via EurekAlert (free)
7 – Harnessing the Power of Data in Health – Stanford Medicine 2017 Health Trends Report (free PDF)
News release: Stanford Medicine launches health care trends report (free)
“Stanford Medicine launches report on health care trends” (RT @StanfordMed see Tweet)
8 – A medicine review is about stopping medicine as much as it is about prescribing – Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (free) (RT @MaryanneDemasi see Tweet)
Original report: The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF)
Related: Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free)
9 – Is aircraft noise exposure associated with cardiovascular disease and hypertension? Results from a cohort study in Athens, Greece – Occupational and Environmental Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Noise May Raise Blood Pressure Risk – New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Long term exposure to aircraft noise linked to high blood pressure – The BMJ, via EurekAlert (free) AND Live Near an Airport? Nighttime Airplane Noise May Cause Hypertension – Medscape (free registration required)
Cohort study suggests a possible association.
Commentary: EULAR: Guidance for Managing Lupus Pregnancy – MedPage Today (free registration required)