Daily Archives: February 8, 2019
Fri, February 8 – 10 Stories of The Day!
8 Feb, 2019 | 00:44h | UTC
1 – Fluid administration for acute circulatory dysfunction using basic monitoring: narrative review and expert panel recommendations from an ESICM task force – Intensive Care Medicine (free for a limited period)
Note: if the above link is paywalled, try this one
2 – Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules: United States, 2019 – Pediatrics (free)
Table 1. Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for ages 18 years or younger, United States, 2019 (free)
Table 2. Catch-up immunization schedule for persons aged 4 months–18 years who start late or who are more than 1 month behind, United States, 2019 (free)
Table 3. Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule by Medical Condition, United States, 2019 (free)
See also: CDC Immunization Schedules for Healthcare Providers (free resources) AND Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule, United States, 2019 – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)
4 – Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America – U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (free)
Summary: What is ‘Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America’? – HIV.gov (free)
Related JAMA Editorial: Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for the United States (free for a limited period)
Commentary: U.S. Announces Plan to Reduce New HIV Diagnoses by 90% Over Next Decade – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Commentaries: U.K. Doctors Call for Caution in Children’s Use of Screens and Social Media – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Experts respond to CMO report on screen-time and social media – Science Media Centre (free) AND Do not let children take electronic devices into bedrooms, say doctors – The Guardian (free) AND Screen time: Children advised not to use electronic devices at dinner – BBC (free)
Related Guidelines: Media devices in pre-school children: the recommendations of the Italian pediatric society – Italian Journal of Pediatrics (free) AND Media and Young Minds – Recommendations from The American Academy of Pediatrics (free)
See also: Children, Adolescents and Screens: What We Know and What We Need To Learn (Pediatrics Supplement with free articles)
6 – Guide to Statistics and Methods: Number Needed to Treat: Conveying the Likelihood of a Therapeutic Effect – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Related: Number needed to treat (NNT) in clinical literature: an appraisal – BMC Medicine (free) AND The Numbers Needed to Treat and Harm (NNT, NNH) Statistics: What They Tell Us and What They Do Not – The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (free)
See also: The NNT Website (resource on the subject with tutorials and practical examples)
Source: Medscape
8 – Education and cognitive reserve in old age – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Education may not protect against dementia as previously thought – American Academy of Neurology (free) AND Does education really protect against dementia? – Medical News Today (free) AND Education won’t help much when it comes to dementia, study says – CNN (free)
Editorial: Suicide falls by a third globally (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Global suicide mortality: Using data to inform action and monitor progress – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Global rates of suicide death have fallen by a third since 1990, study finds – CNN (free)
Commentaries: HPV cervical screening test switch ‘effective’, says pilot study – Cancer Research UK (free) AND Cervical screening intervals could be safely extended to at least five years – Pulse (free)
Related: USPSTF Statement: Screening for Cervical Cancer (free guidance and commentaries) AND Study: Little Benefit in Screening Women Aged 55 with a Negative HPV DNA test (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Randomized Trial: Cervical Cancer Screening with Cervical HPV Testing vs Cytology Testing (link to abstract and commentaries)
“The lower incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 or worse and cervical cancer at present screening intervals would strongly support the safety of extending the intervals to at least five years without increasing the risk of potentially life-threatening disease.”