Daily Archives: April 17, 2019
Update in Neurocritical Care
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:25h | UTC
Wed April 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:40h | UTC
3 – NICE Guideline: Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: diagnosis and initial management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
4 – Effect of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health and Economic Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Employer Wellness Programs—A Work in Progress (free)
Commentaries: Workplace wellness programs may help people change certain behaviors but do little to improve overall health or lower spending, study shows – Harvard Medical School (free) AND How Well Do Workplace Wellness Programs Work? – NPR (free) AND Harvard Study On Workplace Wellness: Behaviors Change But Health Does Not — So Far – CommonHealth (free) AND Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows – The New York Times (free)
Related: Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise (free)
Commentary: Mid-life resting heart rate of 75 plus beats/minute linked to doubling in early death risk – BMJ (free)
Commentaries: A Modern Snapshot of the Daily Work of Medical Interns—The Burden of Indirect Patient Care – JAMA Internal Medicine (free) AND First-year doctors spend almost 90% of their time away from patients – University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine (free) AND First-year trainee doctors spend little time on patient care – Reuters (free) AND Medical Interns Spend 87 percent of Their Work Time Away From Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free)
Commentaries: Additional routine ultrasounds benefit mothers and babies, and could be cost saving, study finds – PLOS (free) AND Expert reaction to study on additional routine ultrasounds – Science Media Centre (free)
8 – Management of transient ischemic attack or nondisabling stroke related to extracranial internal carotid artery stenosis – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: FDA: Companies Must Stop Selling Vaginal Meshes for Pelvic Organ Prolapse – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND F.D.A. Halts U.S. Sales of Pelvic Mesh, Citing Safety Concerns for Women – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND US halts sales of pelvic mesh tied to injuries in women – Associated Press (free)
Related: Mesh Implants for Women: Scandal or Standard of Care? – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Population versus individual protection by pneumococcal conjugate vaccination – The Lancet (free) AND PCV10 pneumococcal vaccine has big impact in Kenya, even among unvaccinated individuals – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (free)
Update in Hospital Medicine: Practical Lessons from Current Literature
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:24h | UTC
NICE Guideline: Ectopic Pregnancy and Miscarriage
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:22h | UTC
Randomized Trial: Workplace Wellness Programs do Little to Improve Overall Health or Lower Spending
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:17h | UTCEffect of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health and Economic Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Employer Wellness Programs—A Work in Progress (free)
Commentaries: Workplace wellness programs may help people change certain behaviors but do little to improve overall health or lower spending, study shows – Harvard Medical School (free) AND How Well Do Workplace Wellness Programs Work? – NPR (free) AND Harvard Study On Workplace Wellness: Behaviors Change But Health Does Not — So Far – CommonHealth (free) AND Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows – The New York Times (free)
Related: Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise (free)
Study: First-Year Internal Medicine Residents Spend Only 13% of Their Time on Direct Patient Care
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:05h | UTCCommentaries: A Modern Snapshot of the Daily Work of Medical Interns—The Burden of Indirect Patient Care – JAMA Internal Medicine (free) AND First-year doctors spend almost 90% of their time away from patients – University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine (free) AND First-year trainee doctors spend little time on patient care – Reuters (free) AND Medical Interns Spend 87 percent of Their Work Time Away From Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free)
FDA Orders Manufacturers of Surgical Mesh for Pelvic Organ Prolapse to Stop Selling all Devices
17 Apr, 2019 | 05:50h | UTCCommentaries: FDA: Companies Must Stop Selling Vaginal Meshes for Pelvic Organ Prolapse – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND F.D.A. Halts U.S. Sales of Pelvic Mesh, Citing Safety Concerns for Women – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND US halts sales of pelvic mesh tied to injuries in women – Associated Press (free)
Related: Mesh Implants for Women: Scandal or Standard of Care? – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Cohort Study: Mid-life Resting Heart Rate Over 75 Beats per Minute Linked to High Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality
17 Apr, 2019 | 06:15h | UTCCommentary: Mid-life resting heart rate of 75 plus beats/minute linked to doubling in early death risk – BMJ (free)
Study: Screening for Breech Presentation Using Universal Late-pregnancy Ultrasonography
17 Apr, 2019 | 05:55h | UTCCommentaries: Additional routine ultrasounds benefit mothers and babies, and could be cost saving, study finds – PLOS (free) AND Expert reaction to study on additional routine ultrasounds – Science Media Centre (free)
Longitudinal Surveillance Study: Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
17 Apr, 2019 | 05:48h | UTCCommentaries: Population versus individual protection by pneumococcal conjugate vaccination – The Lancet (free) AND PCV10 pneumococcal vaccine has big impact in Kenya, even among unvaccinated individuals – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
Introduction of 10-valent #pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Kenya, accompanied by a catch-up campaign, substantially reduced invasive pneumococcal disease in children & adults without significant replacement disease: a longitudinal surveillance study https://t.co/pOm7kR2JbQ pic.twitter.com/E1wt2p1waE
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) April 15, 2019
Management of Transient Ischemic Attack or Nondisabling Stroke Related to Extracranial Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis
17 Apr, 2019 | 05:53h | UTCManagement of transient ischemic attack or nondisabling stroke related to extracranial internal carotid artery stenosis – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free for a limited period)