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Report: Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS)
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:38h | UTCReport: Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS) – World Health Organization (free)
News Release: High levels of antibiotic resistance found worldwide, new data shows (free)
Commentaries: WHO releases its first report on global antibiotic resistance – CIDRAP (free) AND UN health agency finds high levels of antibiotic resistance to world’s most common infections – UN News Centre (free)
Editorial: Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn’t
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:39h | UTCOverdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn’t – BMJ Evidence Based Medicine (free) (via @MaryDixonWoods)
Systematic Review of Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines for Average-Risk Adults
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:24h | UTC
Review: Imaging Features of Inflammatory Breast Disorders
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:23h | UTCImaging Features of Inflammatory Breast Disorders: A Pictorial Essay – Korean Journal of Radiology (free)
Meta-Analysis: Systemic Pharmacological Treatments for Chronic Plaque Psoriasis
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:21h | UTCSystemic pharmacological treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis: a network meta-analysis – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Review: Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI of Prostate Cancer
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:22h | UTC
Systematic Review: Bisphosphonates for Paget’s disease of bone in adults
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:19h | UTCBisphosphonates for Paget’s disease of bone in adults – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Systematic Review: E-learning for Health Professionals
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:17h | UTCE-learning for health professionals – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Systematic Review: Peritoneal Dialysis for Acute Kidney Injury
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:20h | UTCPeritoneal dialysis for acute kidney injury – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Review: Endovascular Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:15h | UTC
Review: Imaging Features of Intrathoracic Complications of Lung Transplantation
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:14h | UTC
Review: Urine-Based Biomarkers in Bladder Cancer
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:11h | UTC
Review: Peri-Operative Chemotherapy for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:09h | UTC
Review – Posttraumatic Delayed Vertebral Collapse: Kummell’s Disease
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:13h | UTC
Review: Next-Generation Sequencing in Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:10h | UTC
Three Decades of Peer Review Congresses
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:05h | UTCEditorial: Three Decades of Peer Review Congresses – JAMA (free for a period)
Related research letters (all free for a period) Trialists’ Intent to Share Individual Participant Data as Disclosed at ClinicalTrials.gov AND Altmetric Scores, Citations, and Publication of Studies Posted as Preprints – JAMA AND Editorial Evaluation, Peer Review, and Publication of Research Reports With and Without Supplementary Online Content AND Characteristics of Interim Publications of Randomized Clinical Trials and Comparison With Final Publications AND Prevalence of Disclosed Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research and Associations With Journal Impact Factors and Altmetric Scores
Why Climate Change is Worsening Public Health Problems
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:07h | UTCWhy climate change is worsening public health problems – The Conversation (free)
Related report: The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health – The Lancet (free registration required)
Guide to Safer Ambulatory Referrals in the EHR Era
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:04h | UTCClosing the Loop: A Guide to Safer Ambulatory Referrals in the EHR Era – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (free registration required)
Commentary: ACP endorses guidelines on patient referrals – ACP Internist (free)
Report: 2018 Environmental Performance Index
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:05h | UTCReport: 2018 Environmental Performance Index (free news release and PDF)
Commentary: Air quality is leading environmental threat to public health – Yale University, via ScienceDaily (free)
Guideline: Cystic Fibrosis Colorectal Cancer Screening
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:07h | UTCOriginal guideline: Cystic Fibrosis Colorectal Cancer Screening Consensus Recommendations – Gastroenterology (link to abstract – $ for full-text))
Systematic Review: Retinal Injury Following Laser Pointer Exposure
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:03h | UTCCommentary: Retinal injury caused by laser pointers – ScienceDaily (free)
Single Urine Samples are Just as Good as 24-hour Collections for Diagnosing Pre-eclampsia
30 Jan, 2018 | 19:02h | UTCSingle urine samples are just as good as 24-hour collections for diagnosing pre-eclampsia – NIHR Signal (free)
Mon, January 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!
29 Jan, 2018 | 01:14h | UTC
1 – Guideline: Sore throat (acute): antimicrobial prescribing – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (free)
News release: Use paracetamol to relieve a sore throat rather than antibiotics (free)
Commentaries: GPs should cut back on antibiotic prescriptions for sore throats, NICE says – GP (free) AND ‘Painkillers best option for sore throats’ say new NHS guidelines – NHS Choices (free)
Related guideline: Corticosteroids for sore throat – The BMJ (free)
Commentaries: Parental supply and alcohol-related harm in adolescence: emerging but incomplete evidence – The Lancet Public Health (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at parents giving alcohol to their teenage children, and alcohol-related risks – Science Media Centre (free) AND Parental provision of alcohol to teenagers does not reduce risks, compared to no supply, Australian study finds – ScienceDaily (free)
4 – Association Between Fluid Balance and Outcomes in Critically Ill Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Pediatrics (free for a period)
Commentaries: Fluid Overload Boosts Mortality in Critically Ill Children – Medscape (free registration required)
5 – New series published to support the use of qualitative research in decision-making – World Health Organization (free) (via @olibiermann and @trishgreenhalgh)
The Series: Applying GRADE-CERQual to Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Findings – Implementation Science (free)
WHO Media Centre: Why is this new qualitative research tool (GRADE-CERQual) important? (free)
6 – Key Concepts for Informed Health Choices: a framework for helping people learn how to assess treatment claims and make informed choices – BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine (free) (via @Students4BE)
Related free resources: Testing Treatments Interactive AND Students 4 Best Evidence – Key Concepts
7 – Review: The incidental thyroid nodule – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (free)
9 – In the Land of the Skinny, People are Getting Fat – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related report: Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Editorial: Global Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity (free)
Related commentaries: Obesity now kills more people worldwide than car crashes, terror attacks, and Alzheimer’s combined – VOX (free) AND Global cost of obesity-related illness to hit $1.2tn a year from 2025 – The Guardian (free)
10 – A surgical procedure for shoulder pain is less effective than previously thought – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial – The Lancet (free) AND Editorial: No benefit of arthroscopy in subacromial shoulder pain (free)
Tue, January 30 – 10 Stories of The Day!
30 Jan, 2018 | 00:23h | UTC
1 – Report: Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS) – World Health Organization (free PDF)
News Release: High levels of antibiotic resistance found worldwide, new data shows (free)
Commentaries: WHO releases its first report on global antibiotic resistance – CIDRAP (free) AND UN health agency finds high levels of antibiotic resistance to world’s most common infections – UN News Centre (free)
2 – Editorial: Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn’t – BMJ Evidence Based Medicine (free) (via @MaryDixonWoods)
“Broadly, overdiagnosis means making people patients unnecessarily, by identifying problems that were never going to cause harm or by medicalising ordinary life experiences through expanded definitions of diseases”.
4 – Shorter Versus Longer Courses of Antibiotics for Infection in Hospitalized Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free PDF)
Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
5 – Birth Defects Potentially Related to Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy in the United States – JAMA (free for a period)
Commentaries: Birth defects climb in US areas with local Zika – CIDRAP (free) AND More birth defects in U.S. areas with Zika: U.S. health officials – Reuters (free)
Commentaries: Women who have gestational diabetes in pregnancy are at higher risk of future health issues – University of Birmingham, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Target Patients With Gestational Diabetes After Birth to Reduce Risks – Medscape (free registration required)
Related article and commentaries: Association of History of Gestational Diabetes With Long-term Cardiovascular Disease Risk
7 – Association of Exposure to Communities With Higher Ratios of Obesity with Increased Body Mass Index and Risk of Overweight and Obesity Among Parents and Children – JAMA Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Your Neighbors, Your Waistline – New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Is ‘Social Contagion’ at Play When It Comes to Obesity Risk? – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Location of military assignment tied to obesity risk for families – Cardiovascular Business (free)
8 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 29 January 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
To Care Is Human — Collectively Confronting the Clinician-Burnout Crisis
26 Jan, 2018 | 01:42h | UTCPerspectives: To Care Is Human — Collectively Confronting the Clinician-Burnout Crisis – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Beyond Burnout — Redesigning Care to Restore Meaning and Sanity for Physicians (free)
Related: Why Physician Burnout Is Endemic, and How Health Care Must Respond – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND Counting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout – Reuters (free)