Mon, March 25 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – World Tuberculosis Day | 24 March 2019 – World Health Organization (free resources)

See also: Cochrane Library releases Special Collection on diagnosing tuberculosis for World Tuberculosis Day (free collection) AND Global Epidemiology of Tuberculosis and Progress Toward Achieving Global Targets — 2017 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free) AND Building a Tuberculosis-free World: The Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis (free report – registration required) AND WHO Consolidated Guidelines on Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Treatment (free)

2 – The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons’ Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pilonidal Disease – Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (free)

3 – Treatment of Diabetes in Older Adults: An Endocrine Society* Clinical Practice Guideline – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (free PDF)

News Release: Treating diabetes in older adults requires simpler medication regimens, looser glycemic targets – The Endocrine Society (free)

4 – Randomized trial of oral versus enteral feeding for patients with postoperative pancreatic fistula after pancreatoduodenectomy – BJS (free)

Source: EvidenceAlerts

5 – Perspective: Why you should be a “medical conservative” – Lown Institute (free)

Original Article: Perspective: The Case for Being a Medical Conservative (free article and twitter thread)

“being a medical conservative means being skeptical about new medical advances until unbiased and high-quality evidence shows a clear benefit”

6 – Physicians’ Trust in One Another – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Related Article: Why Physicians Should Trust in Patients – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Commentary: JAMA viewpoint: Physicians’ trust in one another is a care safety and quality issue – Regenstrief Institute (free)

7 – Are the Risks Of Drugs That Enhance Imaging Tests Overblown? – NPR (free)

Related: Meta-analysis: Acute Kidney Injury After Computed Tomography (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Reviews: Post-Contrast Acute Kidney Injury (free) AND Review: Does contrast cause kidney injury? (free)

8 – Opinion: Things We Do for No Reason: Neuroimaging for Hospitalized Patients with Delirium – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free)

See Complete Series: Things We Do For No Reason (free articles)

9 – Opinion: Things We Do For No Reason: Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Patients with Delirium – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free)

See Complete Series: Things We Do For No Reason (free articles)

10 – Development and Validation of a Deep Learning–Based Automated Detection Algorithm for Major Thoracic Diseases on Chest Radiographs – JAMA Network Open (free)

Related: Automated Triaging of Adult Chest Radiographs with Deep Artificial Neural Networks (free) AND Deep Learning for Chest Radiograph Diagnosis (free)