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Choosing Wisely: Twenty Low-Value Practices in Family Medicine
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:48h | UTCAmerican Academy of Family Physicians: Twenty Things Physicians and Patients Should Question (free)
Commentary: Choosing Wisely: New Practices to Avoid in Family Medicine – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
See complete lists of low-value practices: Choosing Wisely U.S. / Choosing Wisely UK / Choosing Wisely Australia AND Choosing Wisely Canada
Study: Evaluating Shared Decision Making for Lung Cancer Screening
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:46h | UTCEvaluating Shared Decision Making for Lung Cancer Screening – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Failing Grade for Shared Decision Making for Lung Cancer Screening (free for a limited period)
Author Interview: Evaluating Shared Decision Making for Lung Cancer Screening (free audio)
Commentaries: Doctors may not explain pros, cons of lung cancer screening – Reuters (free) AND Shared Decision-Making Flops for Lung Ca Screening – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Perspective: Surrogate End Points Ain’t all that Bad
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:45h | UTCSurrogate End Points Ain’t all that Bad – The Health Care Blog (free) (via @RogueRad)
Study: Analysis of Clinical Benefit, Harms, and Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Women for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:48h | UTCCommentaries: Should we screen women for abdominal aortic aneurysm? – The Lancet (free) AND Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Women for AAA – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Women Likely Not Good Targets for AAA Screening, Study Suggests – TCTMD (free)
Meta-Analysis: Substandard and Falsified Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:47h | UTCCommentaries: Prevalence of Substandard and Falsified Essential Medicines: Still an Incomplete Picture – JAMA Network Open (free) AND New Study Finds Fake, Low-Quality Medicines Prevalent in the Developing World – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, via R&D (free)
Cohort Study: Excess Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease in Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes in Relation to Age at Onset
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:44h | UTCExcess mortality and cardiovascular disease in young adults with type 1 diabetes in relation to age at onset: a nationwide, register-based cohort study – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Early type 1 diabetes shortens women’s lives by 18 years – University of Gothenburg, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Early age type 1 diabetes linked to shorter life expectancy than later age diagnosis – OnMedica (free)
Outbreaks: Behind the Headlines
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:42h | UTCOutbreaks: Behind the headlines – World Health Organization (free)
Guideline: Corticosteroid Therapy for Sepsis
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:43h | UTCCorticosteroid therapy for sepsis: a clinical practice guideline – The BMJ (free)
Analysis: Renaming Low-Risk Conditions Labelled as Cancer
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:39h | UTCRenaming low risk conditions labelled as cancer – The BMJ (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Is it time to remove the cancer label from low-risk conditions? – The Conversation (free) AND Doctors should avoid saying ‘cancer’ for minor lesions – study – The Guardian (free) Drop ‘cancer’ label to protect patients from over-treatment, researchers say – The Sidney Morning Herald (free)
Cohort Study: Risk Factors Associated With Major Cardiovascular Events 1 Year After Acute Myocardial Infarction
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:41h | UTCCommentaries: Algorithm IDs Patients at Risk of Post-MI Events – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Risk Model Helps Predict CV Events 1 Year After Acute MI – Medscape (free registration required)
Review: Dos and Don’ts in the Management of Cirrhosis
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:39h | UTCDos and Don’ts in the Management of Cirrhosis: A View from the 21st Century – American Journal of Gastroenterology (free for a limited period) (via @Abraham_RMI)
The Multivitamin Industry Rakes in Billions of Dollars. But Science Says We’re Not Getting Healthier
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:38h | UTCRelated Study: Association of Multivitamin and Mineral Supplementation and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (free) AND Editorial: Multivitamins Do Not Reduce Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality and Should Not Be Taken for This Purpose: How Do We Know That? (free)
“Unless you have a clinically identified deficiency, the research tells us there is little reason to consume supplements.”
Fri, August 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:16h | UTC
1 – 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Adults With Congenital Heart Disease (free PDF)
News Release: Societies Release Updated Guideline for Treating Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients (free)
Key Points to Remember: 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline for Adults With Congenital Heart Disease – American College of Cardiology (free)
2 – Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU – Critical Care Medicine (free) (via @Abraham_RMI)
3 – Association of Compensation From the Surgical and Medical Device Industry to Physicians and Self-declared Conflict of Interest – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period)
Author Interview: Association of Compensation to Physicians From Industry and Self-declared Conflict of Interest (free)
Commentaries: Safeguarding Against Conflicts of Interest in the Surgical Literature – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period) AND Financial Ties That Bind: Studies Often Fall Short On Conflict-Of-Interest Disclosures – Kaiser Health News (free)
Editorial: Reversals in life expectancy in high income countries? (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Life Expectancy Declining Across High Income Countries – Eurasia Review (free) AND Australians living longer but life expectancy dips in US and UK – The Guardian (free) AND UK life expectancy drops while other western countries improve – NHS Choices (free)
Infographic: Why is US Life Expectancy Falling Behind? (free PDF)
Commentary: Life expectancy drops in the US and the UK, rises in Australia, a new study finds – CNN (free)
6 – Keeping Up With Cardiology: Old-School Learning Versus the Twittersphere – TCTMD (free)
Related: Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops? – Facets (free) AND Rise of the Tweetorial – Precious Bodily Fluids (free) AND Social Medicine: Twitter in Healthcare – Journal of Clinical Medicine (free) AND University of Twitter? Scientists give impromptu lecture critiquing nutrition research – CBC (free) AND Twitter-Based Medicine: How Social Media is Changing the Public’s View of Medicine – The Health Care Blog (free) AND What’s your doctor reading? How social media is disrupting medical education – National Post (free)
7 – Effect of Peer Comparison Letters for High-Volume Primary Care Prescribers of Quetiapine in Older and Disabled Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Behavioral nudges lead to striking drop in prescriptions of potent antipsychotic – Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Study Reduces Over-prescription of Antipsychotics in Older Adults – Mad in America (free) AND ‘Dear Doctor’ Letters Use Peer Pressure, Government Warning To Stop Overprescribing – NPR (free) AND Peer Pressure Tactic Successfully Curbs Overprescribing – Medscape (free registration required)
8 – Smoking Cessation, Weight Change, Type 2 Diabetes, and Mortality – The New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Weight gain after smoking cessation linked with increased short-term diabetes risk – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (free) AND Weight gain temporarily hikes diabetes risk when smokers quit – Reuters (free) AND Smokers Are Better Off After They Quit Even if They Gain Weight – Physician’s First Watch (free)
9 – Endovascular coiling versus neurosurgical clipping for people with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage – Cochrane Library (free for a limited period)
Summary: Endovascular coiling versus neurosurgical clipping for people with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage – Cochrane Library (free)
10 – Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels With Autism in Offspring From a National Birth Cohort – The American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Autism and DDT: What one million pregnancies can — and can’t — reveal – Nature News (free) AND Epidemiologists Link DDT From The 1970s To Modern Autism Diagnoses – Science 2.0 (free – skeptical point of view on study results)
Perspective: Tick- and Mosquito-Borne Diseases Are Increasing Dramatically
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:15h | UTCTick- and Mosquito-Borne Diseases Are Increasing Dramatically – Scientific American (free)
Related: CDC Report: U.S Trends in Vector-borne Diseases (link to report and commentaries)
Systematic Review: Interventions for Preventing Falls in Older People
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:13h | UTC
Infographic: High Burden, Low Budget: Non-communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-income Countries
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:14h | UTCHigh burden, low budget: non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free) (via @equitylist)
Analysis: Global Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease
17 Aug, 2018 | 01:11h | UTCNews release and visual abstract: KI article shows the doubling incidence, prevalence and mortality of CKD – International Society of Nephrology (free)
Commentary: Global Burden of Kidney Disease on the Rise, Unequally Distributed – Medscape (free registration required)
Perspective: How Disruptive Innovation by Business and Technology Firms Could Improve Population Health
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:25h | UTCHow Disruptive Innovation by Business and Technology Firms Could Improve Population Health – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Review: Clinical Applications of Machine Learning in Cardiovascular Disease and its Relevance to Cardiac Imaging
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:21h | UTC
Randomized Trial: Reducing the Burden of Dizziness in Middle-aged and Older People
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:24h | UTCSource: EvidenceAlerts
Cohort Study: Temporal Associations of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption With Cancer Mortality
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:23h | UTCTemporal Associations of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption With Cancer Mortality – JAMA Network Open (free)
Commentary: Policies That Lower Drinking and Smoking Reduce Cancer Deaths – Medscape (free registration required)
Guideline: Medical Management of Perianal Fistulizing Crohn’s Disease
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:17h | UTC
Cardio-Oncology Services: Rationale, Organization, and Implementation
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:14h | UTC
Review: Clinical Applications of Machine Learning in Cardiovascular Disease and its Relevance to Cardiac Imaging
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:21h | UTCGrand Rounds: Alcoholic Hepatitis – Journal of Hepatology (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Position Paper: Imaging the Adult with Congenital Heart Disease
16 Aug, 2018 | 23:15h | UTC