Mon January 06 – 10 Stories of The Day! | Content Curation & Alerts in Medicine

1 – The Altmetric TOP 100 Articles of 2019

See the 54 articles in the List Related to Medical and Health Sciences

“In the past 12 months, Altmetric has tracked over 62.5 million mentions of 2.7 million research outputs. Here, we’ve highlighted the 100 most-discussed works of 2019 – those that have truly captured the public imagination”

2 – Guideline: ADA 2020 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes – American Diabetes Association (free supplement)

Commentaries: ADA 2020 Standards of Care Incorporate CVD Risk Stratification, New Medications – Endocrinology Advisor (free) AND ADA releases 2020 standards of medical care in diabetes – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine (free)

See also: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2020 Abridged for Primary Care Providers – American Diabetes Association (free PDF) AND 2019 update to: Management of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes, 2018. A consensus report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) – Diabetologia (free)

See ADA 2020 Guideline topics below:

Introduction: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2020

Summary of Revisions: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2020

3 – Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

Related: Series: Acute Kidney Injury in the Intensive Care Unit – Intensive Care Medicine (free articles) AND Practical approach to detection and management of acute kidney injury in critically ill patient – Journal of Intensive Care (free) AND Sepsis associated acute kidney injury – The BMJ (free) AND Acute kidney injury from sepsis: current concepts, epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention and treatment – Kidney International (free) AND Drug-induced acute kidney injury diverse mechanisms of tubular injury – Current Opinion in Critical Care (free)

4 – Alcohol Abstinence in Drinkers with Atrial Fibrillation – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Cutting out alcohol may reduce atrial fibrillation episodes – Reuters (free) AND Atrial Fibrillation and Alcohol Abstinence – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Alcohol Abstinence Linked to Lower Risk for Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

5 – Percutaneous coronary angioplasty versus coronary artery bypass grafting in the treatment of unprotected left main stenosis: updated 5-year outcomes from the randomised, non-inferiority NOBLE trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: NOBLE at 5 Years: New Data Favor CABG for Left Main Disease – TCTMD (free)

Related: BBC Investigation on the Reporting of the EXCEL Trial Raises Concerns Over the Safety of Stents for Left Main Disease in Patients at Low Risk for Surgery (free investigation, video, and commentaries) AND EACTS Calls for Independent Left Main CAD Evidence Review, Urges ESC Input – TCTMD (free) AND Changing Evidence, Changing Practice – European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (free)

6 – Doctors Prescribe More of a Drug If They Receive Money from a Pharma Company Tied to It – ProPublica (free)

Commentary: We’ve Been Tracking Pharma Payments to Doctors For Nearly A Decade. We Just Made A Big Breakthrough – ProPublica (free)

7 – Effect of Treating Parents Colonized With Staphylococcus aureus on Transmission to Neonates in the Intensive Care Unit: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Decreasing Staphylococcus aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by Decolonizing Parents – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Decolonizing parents could cut spread of Staph to newborns – CIDRAP (free) AND Trial suggests babies in intensive care can be better protected from parental bacteria – Johns Hopkins Medicine (free)

8 – International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening – Nature (free link via STAT)

Commentaries: AI shows promise for breast cancer screening – Nature (free) AND Google AI tool can pinpoint breast cancer better than clinicians, new study suggests – STAT (free) AND Artificial intelligence could help to spot breast cancer – Imperial College London (free) AND AI can now outperform doctors at detecting breast cancer. Here’s why it won’t replace them – Vox (free) AND A.I. Is Learning to Read Mammograms – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Study finds Google system could improve breast cancer detection – Reuters (free)

9 – Prevention of tuberculosis in macaques after intravenous BCG immunization – Nature (free)

Commentaries: Tuberculosis vaccine finds an improved route – Nature (free) AND New Injection Method Makes an Old TB Vaccine Far More Powerful – New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Changed Route of Immunization Dramatically Improves Efficacy of TB Vaccine – NIH News Releases (free)

10 – Report: Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: The Hope, the Hype, the Promise, the Peril – A Special Publication from the National Academy of Medicine (free)

Related JAMA Viewpoint: Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: A Report From the National Academy of Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentary: AI’s Future Potential Hinges on Consensus: NAM Report – Vanderbilt University Medical Center (free)

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