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Guideline for Perioperative Care for People Living with Frailty Undergoing Elective and Emergency Surgery.

29 Sep, 2021 | 10:10h | UTC

News release and infographic: Perioperative Care of People Living with Frailty – Centre for Perioperative Care

Guideline: Perioperative Care for People Living with Frailty Undergoing Elective and Emergency Surgery – British Geriatrics Society

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transgender and gender diverse health care.

29 Sep, 2021 | 10:21h | UTC

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transgender and gender diverse health care – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

 

AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Coagulation Disorders in Patients With Cirrhosis.

29 Sep, 2021 | 10:07h | UTC

AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Coagulation Disorders in Patients With Cirrhosis – Gastroenterology

See also: AGA Technical Review on Coagulation in Cirrhosis – Gastroenterology

 

M-A: Magnitude of the placebo response across treatment modalities used for treatment-resistant depression in adults.

29 Sep, 2021 | 10:04h | UTC

Magnitude of the Placebo Response Across Treatment Modalities Used for Treatment-Resistant Depression in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Network Open

Invited Commentary: Treatment-Resistant Depression—Resistant to Placebos as Well? – JAMA Network Open

 

Commentaries on Twitter

(thread – click for more)

 

WHO and partners call for urgent action on meningitis – New meningitis strategy aims to save more than 200,000 lives annually.

29 Sep, 2021 | 10:06h | UTC

News release: WHO and partners call for urgent action on meningitis – New meningitis strategy aims to save more than 200,000 lives annually – World Health Organization

See guidance: Defeating meningitis by 2030: a global road map – World Health Organization

Commentaries:

WHO Launches First Global Strategy to Eliminate Bacterial Meningitis by 2030 – Health Policy Watch

LSHTM joins WHO to call for urgent action on meningitis – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

Preliminary randomized trial suggests metformin may prolong gestation in preterm pre-eclampsia.

29 Sep, 2021 | 10:02h | UTC

Use of metformin to prolong gestation in preterm pre-eclampsia: randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial – The BMJ

News release: Diabetes drug may help to prolong preterm pregnancies in women with pre-eclampsia – British Medical Journal

Commentary: Metformin May Prolong Gestation in Women With Preterm Preeclampsia – HealthDay

 

Commentary on Twitter

https://twitter.com/bmj_latest/status/1441643762896211982

 

Editorial: It is time for consensus on ‘consensus statements’?

29 Sep, 2021 | 10:01h | UTC

It is time for consensus on ‘consensus statements’? – British Journal of Sports Medicine

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Review: Sensory Dysfunction in Old Age.

29 Sep, 2021 | 09:57h | UTC

Sensory Dysfunction in Old Age – Deutsches Ärzteblatt International

 

Review: Implementing an early rule-out pathway for acute myocardial infarction in clinical practice.

29 Sep, 2021 | 10:00h | UTC

Implementing an early rule-out pathway for acute myocardial infarction in clinical practice – Heart

 

Review: Monitoring of Treatment for Arterial Hypertension.

29 Sep, 2021 | 09:59h | UTC

Monitoring of Treatment for Arterial Hypertension – Deutsches Ärzteblatt International

 

Global, regional, and national sex-specific burden and control of the HIV epidemic, 1990–2019, for 204 countries and territories: the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2019.

29 Sep, 2021 | 09:56h | UTC

Global, regional, and national sex-specific burden and control of the HIV epidemic, 1990–2019, for 204 countries and territories: the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2019 – The Lancet HIV

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

Opinion | ‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities.

29 Sep, 2021 | 09:53h | UTC

‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities – STAT

 

Opinion: Paying participants isn’t the way to improve clinical trial recruitment.

29 Sep, 2021 | 09:54h | UTC

Paying participants isn’t the way to improve clinical trial recruitment – STAT

 

Editorial: It’s time to send children back to school.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:49h | UTC

It’s time to send children back to school – Nature Medicine

 

COVID-19 testing moves out of the clinic and into the home.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:46h | UTC

COVID-19 Testing Moves Out of the Clinic and Into the Home – JAMA

 

Study shows COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:51h | UTC

News release: COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II – University of Oxford

Original study: Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries – International Journal of Epidemiology

Commentaries:

Life expectancy falls in 27 of 29 nations amid COVID-19 – CIDRAP

Covid has wiped out years of progress on life expectancy, finds study – The Guardian

Related:

Just how do deaths due to COVID-19 stack up?

Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset.

Exploring the gap between excess mortality and COVID-19 deaths in 67 countries.

Report: Three new estimates of India’s all-cause excess mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic – pandemic death toll estimated to be between 3.4 million and 4.9 million excess deaths.

COVID-19 has caused 6.9 million deaths globally, more than double what official reports show

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Evidence shows that, yes, masks prevent COVID-19 – and surgical masks are the way to go.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:45h | UTC

Evidence shows that, yes, masks prevent COVID-19 – and surgical masks are the way to go – The Conversation

Related: [Preprint] Largest study of masks yet details their importance in fighting Covid-19.

 

Functioning of the international health regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:41h | UTC

Functioning of the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic – The Lancet

 

Systematic review: Can non-pharmacological measures prevent or reduce Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in long term care facilities?

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:47h | UTC

Commentary: Can non-pharmacological measures prevent or reduce Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in long term care facilities? – Cochrane Library

Original study: Non‐pharmacological measures implemented in the setting of long‐term care facilities to prevent SARS‐CoV‐2 infections and their consequences: a rapid review – Cochrane Library

 

RCT: Methylphenidate may improve apathy in patients with Alzheimer Disease.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:06h | UTC

Effect of Methylphenidate on Apathy in Patients With Alzheimer Disease: The ADMET 2 Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Methylphenidate for Apathy in Alzheimer Disease—Why Should We Care? (free for a limited period)

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

RCT: Effect of whole-genome sequencing on the clinical management of acutely ill infants with suspected genetic disease.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:05h | UTC

Effect of Whole-Genome Sequencing on the Clinical Management of Acutely Ill Infants With Suspected Genetic Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Pediatrics

 

Commentaries on Twitter

 

Review: The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:43h | UTC

The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants – Nature Reviews Genetics

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

New analysis shows use and predictors of low-value care in health systems – “Patients at health systems with smaller shares of primary care physicians and without teaching hospitals were more likely to receive low-value services”.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:08h | UTC

News release: New analysis shows use and predictors of low-value care in health systems nationwide – Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Original study: Low-Value Care at the Actionable Level of Individual Health Systems – JAMA Internal Medicine

Author interview: Low-Value Care at the Actionable Level of Individual Health Systems

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

Bayesian interpretation of p values in clinical trials.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:01h | UTC

Bayesian interpretation of p values in clinical trials – BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

RCT: Overall survival benefit with Tebentafusp in metastatic uveal melanoma.

28 Sep, 2021 | 09:03h | UTC

Overall Survival Benefit with Tebentafusp in Metastatic Uveal Melanoma – New England Journal of Medicine

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

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