Fri, March 8 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Patient Safety Outcomes under Flexible and Standard Resident Duty-Hour Rules – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Related Study: Sleep and Alertness in a Duty-Hour Flexibility Trial in Internal Medicine – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Longer shifts do not create chronic sleep loss in first-year doctors or reduce safety for patients, study finds – University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (free) AND Flexible Medical Resident Duty Hours Did Not Pose Risks To Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free)

2 – Opinion: The war on ‘prediabetes’ could be a boon for pharma—but is it good medicine? – Science (free)

3 – Outpatient versus inpatient treatment for acute pulmonary embolism – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Outpatient versus inpatient treatment for acute pulmonary embolism – Cochrane Library (free)

Related: British Thoracic Society Guideline for the initial outpatient management of pulmonary embolism (free)

4 – Once daily long‐acting beta2‐agonists and long‐acting muscarinic antagonists in a combined inhaler versus placebo for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Once daily long-acting beta2-agonists and long-acting muscarinic antagonists in a combined inhaler versus placebo for COPD – Cochrane Library (free)

5 – Swedish Society of Rheumatology 2018 guidelines for investigation, treatment, and follow-up of giant cell arteritis – Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology (free)

6 – Medical-ethical guidelines: Management of dying and death – Swiss Medical Weekly (free)

Among other topics, this comprehensive guideline discusses assisted suicide in patients not facing imminent death. Under the Swiss Criminal Code, assisting suicide is not an offence.

7 – ORBITA Absorbed: Principal Investigator Reflects on How Results Have Changed Her Practice – TCTMD (free)

Related: Research: Percutaneous coronary intervention in stable angina (ORBITA) (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Research: Physiology-Stratified Analysis of ORBITA (free study and commentaries)

8 – Coronary Heart Disease and Dietary Carbohydrate, Glycemic Index, and Glycemic Load: Dose-Response Meta-analyses of Prospective Cohort Studies – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)

9 – Control of blood pressure and risk of mortality in a cohort of older adults: the Berlin Initiative Study – European Heart Journal (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Blood Pressure Control and Mortality Risk in Older Adults – American College of Cardiology (free)

10 – Prospective associations between television in the preschool bedroom and later bio-psycho-social risks – Pediatric Research (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: A television in the bedroom? – University of Montreal (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)