Thu December 12 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Practice Guidelines for Central Venous Access 2020: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Central Venous Access – Anesthesiology (free)

2 – Duodeno-pancreatic and extrahepatic biliary tree trauma: WSES-AAST guidelines – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free)

3 – European Guidelines for the treatment of HIV-positive adults – European AIDS Clinical Society (free PDF)

Source: HIV Infection Clinical Practice Guidelines (2019): European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) – Medscape (free summary – registration required)

4 – Comorbidities in Persons With HIV: The Lingering Challenge – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Author Interview: Comorbidities in Persons With HIV (free)

Commentary: Efforts to end the HIV epidemic must not ignore people already living with HIV – NIH News Releases (free)

5 – Early High-Dose Vitamin D₃ for Critically Ill, Vitamin D–Deficient Patients – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Commentary: High doses of vitamin D for critically ill patients yield minimal benefit – CU Anschutz Medical Campus (free)

6 – Irbesartan in Marfan syndrome (AIMS): a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomised trial – The Lancet (free)

Invited Commentary: Angiotensin-II receptor blockade in Marfan syndrome – The Lancet (free)

7 – Predatory journals: no definition, no defence – Nature (free)

Related: Many Academics Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Predatory Journals Are Such a Big Problem It’s Not Even Funny – HIV and ID Observations (free)

“Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.”

8 – Effectiveness of management strategies for uninvestigated dyspepsia: systematic review and network meta-analysis – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: Managing Dyspepsia with “Test and Treat” Ranked Best Strategy – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

9 – Prioritising action on alcohol for health and development – The BMJ (free)

See Complete Collection: Solutions for Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases – WHO / The BMJ (free)

Related: WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health 2018 (free report and commentaries) AND Alcohol Use and Burden for 195 Countries and Territories – The Lancet (free study and commentaries)

10 – Antibiotic prescribing without documented indication in ambulatory care clinics: national cross sectional study – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Coding infections in primary care (free)

Commentaries: Up to two-fifths of antibiotic prescriptions in the US could be inappropriate – University of Bristol (free) AND Up to 43% of Antibiotic Prescriptions in the U.S. Are Unnecessary or Improperly Written, Analysis Finds – TIME (free) AND Over 40% of Antibiotic Prescriptions Potentially Inappropriate – NEJM Journal Watch (free)