Fri, February 1 – 10 Stories of The Day!
1 Feb, 2019 | 04:28h | UTC
1 – AACE/ACE Comprehensive Type 2 Diabetes Management Algorithm 2019 – Endocrine Practice (Free PDF and Slide Presentations)
Related Guidelines: ADA 2019 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes (free supplement) AND Diabetes Canada 2018 clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes in Canada (free)
2 – Solutions for non-communicable disease prevention and control – The BMJ (free articles)
3 – PSA’s Medicine Safety: Take Care – Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (free PDF)
News Release: Problems with medicines behind 250,000 hospital admissions annually (free)
“The report reveals that 250,000 Australians are hospitalised each year, with another 400,000 presenting to emergency departments, as a result of medication errors, inappropriate use, misadventure and interactions. At least half of this could have been prevented.”
4 – Fatal flaws in clinical decision making – ANZ Journal of Surgery (free)
Commentary: Fatal flaws in clinical decision making – PSNet (free)
5 – Intermittent iron supplementation for reducing anaemia and its associated impairments in adolescent and adult menstruating women – Cochrane Library (free)
Summary: Iron supplements taken one, two or three times a week for preventing anaemia, and its consequences in menstruating women – Cochrane Library (free)
“In comparison with daily supplementation, the provision of iron supplements intermittently is probably as effective in preventing or controlling anemia”
6 – General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease – Cochrane Library (free)
Summary: General health checks for reducing illness and mortality – Cochrane Library (free)
“General health checks are unlikely to be beneficial.”
9 – A.I. Could Worsen Health Disparities – The New York Times (free)
“In a health system riddled with inequity, we risk making dangerous biases automated and invisible.”
“The USPSTF recommends prophylactic ocular topical medication for all newborns to prevent gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. (A recommendation)”