Daily Archives: November 21, 2018

Wed, November 21 – 10 Stories of The Day!

21 Nov, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – Draft Recommendation Statement: Prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis – U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (free)

Commentaries: Panel recommends everyone at high risk of getting HIV be offered a prevention pill – STAT (free) AND U.S. officials recommend use of PrEP pills to stop spread of HIV – UPI (free)

Related Clinical Guidelines: HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (free articles)

 

2 – Critical appraisal and systematic review of guidelines for perioperative diabetes management: 2011–2017 – Endocrine (free)

Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club

 

3 – Intermediate Diabetes Outcomes in Patients Managed by Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, or Physician Assistants: A Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Diabetes outcomes similar when primary care provided by NPs, PAs, or physicians, study finds – ACP Internist Weekly (free) AND Diabetics Cared for by NPs, PAs Do as Well as Those in Physicians’ Care – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

 

4 – Preoperative fasting in children: review of existing guidelines and recent developments – British Journal of Anaesthesia (free)

 

5 – Replication failures in psychology not due to differences in study populations – Nature (free)

See also: 28 classic and contemporary psychology findings replicated in more than 60 laboratories each across three dozen nations and territories – Centers for Open Science (free)

Related: Evaluating the Replicability of Social Science Experiments (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Essay: The Experiments Are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

 

6 – Overall Survival with Palbociclib and Fulvestrant in Advanced Breast Cancer – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Drug improves survival in metastatic breast cancer – Northwestern University (free)

 

7 – Report: 2018 Access to Medicine Index – Access to Medicine Foundation (free PDF)

Commentaries: Big pharma leaves big gaps: drugmakers urged to do more for poor – Reuters (free) AND Big pharma ‘failing to develop urgent drugs for poorest countries’ – The Guardian (free)

 

8 – Ezetimibe for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and all‐cause mortality events – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Ezetimibe for the prevention of heart disease and death – Cochrane Library (free)

In individuals with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, Ezetimibe has modest beneficial effects, primarily driven by a reduction in non‐fatal MI and non‐fatal stroke, but with little or no effect on clinical fatal endpoints.

 

9 – Updated European Consensus Statement on diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD – European Psychiatry (free)

 

10 – Improving the quality of life of care home residents with dementia: Cost-effectiveness of an optimized intervention for residents with clinically significant agitation in dementia – Alzheimer’s & Dementia (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Care homes with dementia ‘carer champions’ reduce agitation and antipsychotics – carehome.co.uk (free) AND Improving dementia care and treatment saves thousands of pounds in care homes – University of Exeter (free)

 

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