Daily Archives: February 7, 2020

Mini-Review: Corticosteroids in Community-Acquired Pneumonia

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:16h | UTC

Corticosteroids in Community-Acquired Pneumonia – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Related Meta-analysis: Efficacy and Safety of Adjunctive Corticosteroids Therapy for Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – PLOS One (free) AND Adjunctive Systemic Corticosteroids for Hospitalized Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 2015 Update – Scientific Reports (free)

Related Cochrane Review: Is Treatment With Corticosteroids Beneficial for People With Pneumonia? (free)

 

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Fri February 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:34h | UTC

 

Guideline Synopsis: Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-Acquired Pneumonia – JAMA (free for a limited period)

See also: Treatment Algorithm (free)

Original Article: ATS/IDSA Guideline: Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia (free resources)

Related Guideline: NICE Guideline: Management of Pneumonia in Adults (free resources)

 

2 – Corticosteroids in Community-Acquired Pneumonia – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Related Meta-analysis: Efficacy and Safety of Adjunctive Corticosteroids Therapy for Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – PLOS One (free) AND Adjunctive Systemic Corticosteroids for Hospitalized Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 2015 Update – Scientific Reports (free)

Related Cochrane Review: Is Treatment With Corticosteroids Beneficial for People With Pneumonia? (free)

 

3 – Nutrition therapy in critical illness: a review of the literature for clinicians – Critical Care (free)

 

4 – Updating insights into rosiglitazone and cardiovascular risk through shared data: individual patient and summary level meta-analyses – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: The power of shared data to better understand drug safety – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND New study adds to evidence of diabetes drug link to heart problems – BMJ (free) AND Largest ever evaluation of the cardiovascular risk of rosiglitazone published – OnMedica (free) AND Individual patient data analysis firms up rosiglitazone safety verdict – medwire News (free)

 

5 – Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of very early etanercept and MTX versus MTX with delayed etanercept in RA: the VEDERA trial – Annals of Rheumatic Diseases (free)

Commentary: Start with Anti-TNF in RA? Not So Fast – RheumNow (free)

 

6 – Inter- and intraindividual variability in daily resting heart rate and its associations with age, sex, sleep, BMI, and time of year: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of 92,457 adults – PLOS One (free)

Commentary: Normal resting heart rate appears to vary widely from person to person – PLOS (free) AND Normal resting heart rate varies widely – OnMedica (free)

 

7 – Association of Maximal Extent of Resection of Contrast-Enhanced and Non–Contrast-Enhanced Tumor With Survival Within Molecular Subgroups of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma – JAMA Oncology (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: A Common Rule for Resection of Glioblastoma in the Molecular Era – JAMA Oncology (free) AND Brain tumor surgery that pushes boundaries boosts patients survival – University of California (free) AND More aggressive surgery may improve brain cancer survival – UPI (free)

 

8 – WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 6 February 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)

See also: WHO to accelerate research and innovation for new coronavirus – World Health Organization (free) AND Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) advice for the public: Myth busters – World Health Organization (free) AND Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) advice for the public: When and how to use masks – World Health Organization (free)

 

9 – Novel Coronavirus – Selected News & Perspectives / 07 February 2020

– W.H.O. Fights a Pandemic Besides Coronavirus: an ‘Infodemic’ – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

– ‘This beast is moving very fast.’ Will the new coronavirus be contained—or go pandemic? – Science Magazine (free)

– Coronavirus: Everything you need to know in a visual explainer – South China Morning Post (free) (via @DrTomFrieden)

– Coronavirus Expert Reality Check – Global Health NOW (free)

– How the new coronavirus will finally get a proper name – BBC (free)

– WHO says too early to say coronavirus peaking in China – Reuters (free)

– WHO sees no sign of nCoV peak in China, cases rise overseas – CIDRAP (free)

– In effort to develop coronavirus vaccine, outbreak expert sees ‘hardest problem’ of his career – STAT (free)

 

10 – Novel Coronavirus – Latest Articles / 07 February 2020

– Clinical evidence does not support corticosteroid treatment for 2019-nCoV lung injury – The Lancet (free PDF) See Commentary: Steroids could do more harm than good in treating coronavirus – University of Edinburgh (free)

– Reducing mortality from 2019-nCoV: host-directed therapies should be an option – The Lancet (free)

– Travelers Give Wings to Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Journal of Travel Medicine (free PDF)

– Origin and evolution of the 2019 novel coronavirus – Clinical Infectious Diseases (free PDF)

– Editorial: Communication, collaboration and cooperation can stop the 2019 coronavirus – Nature (free)

– Updates on Wuhan 2019 Novel Coronavirus Epidemic – Journal of Medical Virology (free PDF)

– Measures for diagnosing and treating infections by a novel coronavirus responsible for a pneumonia outbreak originating in Wuhan, China – Microbes and Infection (free)

– SARS to novel coronavirus – old lessons and new lessons – Epidemiology and Infection (free)

 

Preprints:

– Evidence and characteristics of human-to-human transmission of 2019-nCoV – medRxiv (free PDF)

– Modelling the epidemic trend of the 2019-nCOV outbreak in Hubei Province, China – medRxiv (free PDF)

– Epidemic doubling time of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak by province in mainland China – medRxiv (free PDF)

 

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Guideline Synopsis: Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:17h | UTC

Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-Acquired Pneumonia – JAMA (free for a limited period)

See also: Treatment Algorithm (free)

Original Article: ATS/IDSA Guideline: Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia (free resources)

Related Guideline: NICE Guideline: Management of Pneumonia in Adults (free resources)

 

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Meta-Analysis Confirms Increased Cardiovascular Risk with Rosiglitazone

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:13h | UTC

Updating insights into rosiglitazone and cardiovascular risk through shared data: individual patient and summary level meta-analyses – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: The power of shared data to better understand drug safety – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND New study adds to evidence of diabetes drug link to heart problems – BMJ (free) AND Largest ever evaluation of the cardiovascular risk of rosiglitazone published – OnMedica (free) AND Individual patient data analysis firms up rosiglitazone safety verdict – medwire News (free)

 

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Nutrition Therapy in Critical Illness: A Review of the Literature for Clinicians

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:15h | UTC

Nutrition therapy in critical illness: a review of the literature for clinicians – Critical Care (free)

 

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WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 6 February 2020

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:07h | UTC

WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 6 February 2020 – World Health Organization (free PDF)

See also: WHO to accelerate research and innovation for new coronavirus – World Health Organization (free) AND Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) advice for the public: Myth busters – World Health Organization (free) AND Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) advice for the public: When and how to use masks – World Health Organization (free)

 

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Randomized Trial: Very Early Etanercept + MTX vs. MTX with Delayed Etanercept in Rheumatoid Arthritis

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:12h | UTC

Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of very early etanercept and MTX versus MTX with delayed etanercept in RA: the VEDERA trial – Annals of Rheumatic Diseases (free)

Commentary: Start with Anti-TNF in RA? Not So Fast – RheumNow (free)

 

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Novel Coronavirus – Latest Articles / 07 February 2020

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:02h | UTC

– Clinical evidence does not support corticosteroid treatment for 2019-nCoV lung injury – The Lancet (free PDF) See Commentary: Steroids could do more harm than good in treating coronavirus – University of Edinburgh (free)

– Reducing mortality from 2019-nCoV: host-directed therapies should be an option – The Lancet (free)

– Travelers Give Wings to Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – Journal of Travel Medicine (free PDF)

– Origin and evolution of the 2019 novel coronavirus – Clinical Infectious Diseases (free PDF)

– Editorial: Communication, collaboration and cooperation can stop the 2019 coronavirus – Nature (free)

– Updates on Wuhan 2019 Novel Coronavirus Epidemic – Journal of Medical Virology (free PDF)

– Measures for diagnosing and treating infections by a novel coronavirus responsible for a pneumonia outbreak originating in Wuhan, China – Microbes and Infection (free)

– SARS to novel coronavirus – old lessons and new lessons – Epidemiology and Infection (free)

 

Preprints:

– Evidence and characteristics of human-to-human transmission of 2019-nCoV – medRxiv (free PDF)

– Modelling the epidemic trend of the 2019-nCOV outbreak in Hubei Province, China – medRxiv (free PDF)

– Epidemic doubling time of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak by province in mainland China – medRxiv (free PDF)

 

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Cohort Study: Maximal Extent of Resection of Contrast-Enhanced and Non–Contrast-Enhanced Tumor and Survival in Patients with Glioblastoma

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:09h | UTC

Association of Maximal Extent of Resection of Contrast-Enhanced and Non–Contrast-Enhanced Tumor With Survival Within Molecular Subgroups of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma – JAMA Oncology (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: A Common Rule for Resection of Glioblastoma in the Molecular Era – JAMA Oncology (free) AND Brain tumor surgery that pushes boundaries boosts patients survival – University of California (free) AND More aggressive surgery may improve brain cancer survival – UPI (free)

 

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Cohort Study: Inter- and Intraindividual Variability in Daily Resting Heart Rate and its Associations with Age, Sex, Sleep, BMI, and Time of Year

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:11h | UTC

Inter- and intraindividual variability in daily resting heart rate and its associations with age, sex, sleep, BMI, and time of year: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of 92,457 adults – PLOS One (free)

Commentary: Normal resting heart rate appears to vary widely from person to person – PLOS (free) AND Normal resting heart rate varies widely – OnMedica (free)

 

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Novel Coronavirus – Selected News & Perspectives / 07 February 2020

7 Feb, 2020 | 08:05h | UTC

– W.H.O. Fights a Pandemic Besides Coronavirus: an ‘Infodemic’ – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

– ‘This beast is moving very fast.’ Will the new coronavirus be contained—or go pandemic? – Science Magazine (free)

– Coronavirus: Everything you need to know in a visual explainer – South China Morning Post (free) (via @DrTomFrieden)

– Coronavirus Expert Reality Check – Global Health NOW (free)

– How the new coronavirus will finally get a proper name – BBC (free)

– WHO says too early to say coronavirus peaking in China – Reuters (free)

– WHO sees no sign of nCoV peak in China, cases rise overseas – CIDRAP (free)

– In effort to develop coronavirus vaccine, outbreak expert sees ‘hardest problem’ of his career – STAT (free)

 

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Consensus Statement: Waist Circumference as a Vital Sign in Clinical Practice

7 Feb, 2020 | 07:58h | UTC

Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity – Nature Reviews Endocrinology (free)

 

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Guideline for Oncological Breast Surgery: Procedure‐specific Postoperative Pain Management Recommendations

7 Feb, 2020 | 07:59h | UTC

PROSPECT guideline for oncological breast surgery: a systematic review and procedure‐specific postoperative pain management recommendations – Anaesthesia (free)

 

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Canadian Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders

7 Feb, 2020 | 07:57h | UTC

Canadian practice guidelines for the treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders – Journal of Eating Disorders (free)

 

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Sex Differences in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Epidemiology, Clinical Considerations, and Disease Pathogenesis

7 Feb, 2020 | 07:53h | UTC

Sex Differences in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Epidemiology, Clinical Considerations, and Disease Pathogenesis – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)

 

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Postsurgical Neuropathy: A Descriptive Review

7 Feb, 2020 | 07:55h | UTC

Postsurgical Neuropathy: A Descriptive Review – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)

 

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Evaluation and Treatment of Overactive Bladder in Women

7 Feb, 2020 | 07:52h | UTC

Evaluation and Treatment of Overactive Bladder in Women – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)

 

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