Daily Archives: February 27, 2019 | LinksMedicus Free Medical News & Perspectives

“For bundled payments to fulfill their promise of delivering greater value to patients, bundling must shift toward the condition or person level rather than the procedure level”

6 – Association of Overlapping Surgery With Perioperative Outcomes – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Podcast: Is It Safe? What Happens When Your Surgeon Is Not Actually Doing Some of Your Operation? – JAMA (free)

Commentaries: How Safe Are Overlapping Surgeries? – Harvard Medical School (free) AND Double-Booked Surgeons: Study Raises Safety Questions For High-Risk Patients – NPR (free) AND ‘Overlapping surgery’ is safe for most patients, but not all – STAT (free)

7 – Association of Adolescent Hypertension with Future End-Stage Renal Disease – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Adolescent Hypertension Linked to Later End-Stage Renal Disease – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

8 – 2018 Update on Pediatric Medical Overuse: A Review – JAMA Pediatrics (free for a limited period)

9 – Pathophysiology and management of opioid-induced constipation: European expert consensus statement – United European Gastroenterology Journal (free)

Related Guideline: American Gastroenterological Association Institute Guideline on the Medical Management of Opioid-Induced Constipation (free guideline and commentaries)

10 – Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guidelines on the Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma – Neurosurgery (free articles)

– Executive Summary

– Classification of Injury

– Radiological Evaluation

– Neurological Assessment

– Pharmacological Treatment

– Prophylaxis and Treatment of Thromboembolic Events

– Hemodynamic Management

– Nonoperative Care

– Operative Versus Nonoperative Treatment

– Timing of Surgical Intervention

– Surgical Approaches

– Novel Surgical Strategies

Review: Rationalizing Antimicrobial Therapy in the ICU

27 Feb, 2019 | 01:00h | UTC

Rationalizing antimicrobial therapy in the ICU: a narrative review – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

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Alex Nowbar’s Weekly Research Reviews, 26 February 2019

27 Feb, 2019 | 00:55h | UTC

Alex Nowbar’s weekly research reviews, 26 February 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Psoriasis: AAD Guidelines of Care with Awareness and Attention to Comorbidities

27 Feb, 2019 | 00:58h | UTC

Joint AAD-NPF guidelines of care for the management and treatment of psoriasis with awareness and attention to comorbidities – Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (free)

Commentary: New psoriasis guidelines emphasize management of comorbidities, use of biologics – ACP Internist (free)

Perspective: Bundled Payments Are Moving Upstream

27 Feb, 2019 | 00:53h | UTC

Bundled Payments Are Moving Upstream – NEJM Catalyst (free)

“For bundled payments to fulfill their promise of delivering greater value to patients, bundling must shift toward the condition or person level rather than the procedure level”

Study: Benefits of Sequentially Adding Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy or Antidepressant Medication for Adults with Nonremitting Depression

27 Feb, 2019 | 00:56h | UTC

Benefits of Sequentially Adding Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy or Antidepressant Medication for Adults With Nonremitting Depression – The American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Patients Not Fully Responsive to Antidepressants, CBT Alone Found to Improve With Combined Therapies – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND What to Do When Depression Doesn’t Remit with Monotherapy – NEJM Journal Watch (free for a limited period)

Study: Association of Overlapping Surgery with Perioperative Outcomes

27 Feb, 2019 | 00:50h | UTC

Association of Overlapping Surgery With Perioperative Outcomes – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Podcast: Is It Safe? What Happens When Your Surgeon Is Not Actually Doing Some of Your Operation? – JAMA (free)

Commentaries: How Safe Are Overlapping Surgeries? – Harvard Medical School (free) AND Double-Booked Surgeons: Study Raises Safety Questions For High-Risk Patients – NPR (free) AND ‘Overlapping surgery’ is safe for most patients, but not all – STAT (free)

Related Commentary on Twitter (Thread)

Who's doing your surgery?

Our new @JAMA_current study on the controversial practice of overlapping surgery & what it means for patients (led by @StanfordMed Eric Sun), using data on ~66,000 surgeries performed at 8 medical centers. Thread on findingshttps://t.co/JwH1bLCFUg

— Anupam Jena (@AnupamBJena) February 26, 2019

Study: Association of Adolescent Hypertension with Future End-Stage Renal Disease

27 Feb, 2019 | 00:47h | UTC

Association of Adolescent Hypertension with Future End-Stage Renal Disease – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Adolescent Hypertension Linked to Later End-Stage Renal Disease – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

2018 Update on Pediatric Medical Overuse

27 Feb, 2019 | 00:43h | UTC

2018 Update on Pediatric Medical Overuse: A Review – JAMA Pediatrics (free for a limited period)

Related Commentary on Twitter (Thread)

Update on Pediatric Medical Overuse: Top 9 Recent Findings
1. For children with uncomplicated appendicitis, nonoperative treatment with antibiotics could be considered as an initial treatment strategy.https://t.co/qhpWozLMi2 @JAMASurgery @aaronecarroll

— JAMA Pediatrics (@JAMAPediatrics) February 18, 2019

Guideline: Pathophysiology and Management of Opioid-induced Constipation

27 Feb, 2019 | 00:38h | UTC

Pathophysiology and management of opioid-induced constipation: European expert consensus statement – United European Gastroenterology Journal (free)

Related Guideline: American Gastroenterological Association Institute Guideline on the Medical Management of Opioid-Induced Constipation (free guideline and commentaries)

Systematic Review and Guidelines on the Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma

27 Feb, 2019 | 00:34h | UTC

Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guidelines on the Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma – Neurosurgery (free articles)

– Executive Summary

– Classification of Injury

– Radiological Evaluation

– Neurological Assessment

– Pharmacological Treatment

– Prophylaxis and Treatment of Thromboembolic Events

– Hemodynamic Management

– Nonoperative Care

– Operative Versus Nonoperative Treatment

– Timing of Surgical Intervention

– Surgical Approaches

– Novel Surgical Strategies