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Who’s paying for lunch?
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:15h | UTC
The Future of Radiology and Artificial Intelligence
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:16h | UTCViewpoint: The Future of Radiology and Artificial Intelligence – The Medical Futurist (free)
“Radiologists who use AI will replace those who don’t”.
CONSORT 2010 statement: extension checklist for reporting within person randomised trials
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:20h | UTCResearch Methods & Reporting: CONSORT 2010 statement: extension checklist for reporting within person randomised trials – The BMJ (free)
“This document presents the CONSORT extension to within person trials. It aims to facilitate the reporting of these trials. It extends 16 items of the CONSORT 2010 checklist and introduces a modified flowchart and baseline table to enhance transparency”.
Aging and Caloric Restriction Research
3 Jul, 2017 | 18:01h | UTC
A Research Agenda for Communication Between Health Care Professionals and Patients Living With Serious Illness
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:12h | UTC
Tue, July 4 – 10 Stories of The Day!
4 Jul, 2017 | 00:54h | UTC
1 – Indications for Surgical Management of Hyperparathyroidism: A Review – JAMA Surgery (free)
2 – Redesigning Care for High-Cost, High-Risk Patients – Harvard Business Review (a few articles per month are free) (RT @pash22 see Tweet)
Related: Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs: Ten Recommendations for Policymakers – The Commonwealth Fund (free) AND Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients — An Urgent Priority – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Multimorbidity: clinical assessment and management – NICE Guideline (free) AND Multimorbidity in Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND Focusing on High-Cost Patients — The Key to Addressing High Costs? – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND Richard Smith: The challenge of high need, high cost patients – The BMJ Blogs (free) AND Playbook: Better Care for People with Complex Needs – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
4 – Prognostic Value of Noninvasive Cardiovascular Testing in Patients With Stable Chest Pain – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: CT angiography appears better at predicting future risk for patients with chest pain – Massachusetts General Hospital, via ScienceDaily (free)
Source: EvidenceAlerts (free resource to find articles of interest)
“The most important result indicated that the ability of coronary CTA to identify nonobstructive coronary artery disease – a less-than-70-percent narrowing of a coronary artery – identifies an at-risk group of patients not found by functional testing” (from ScienceDaily).
5 – Social Determinants of Health Visualization – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (free interactive tool)
“The Social Determinants of Health visualization tool allows you to explore the relationships between determinants of health and health indicators across countries … users can visualize the relationships between these determinants and life expectancy, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) by cause, years lived with disability (YLDs) by cause, and causes of death”.
6 – The 8 Things That End Childhood Too Soon: What Clinicians Should Know – Medscape (free registration required)
See also: Stolen Childhoods: End of Childhood Report 2017 (free PDF) AND Save the Children Website (free)
“In this report, Save the Children examined the life events that often signal the end of childhood for too many of the world’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged kids: girls, refugees, street children, and children with disabilities” (from Medscape).
7 – Obesity Pathogenesis: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement – Endocrine Reviews (free PDF)
Commentaries: Endocrine Society issues Scientific Statement on obesity’s causes – The Endocrine Society, via EurekAlert (free) AND After Weight Loss, How To Keep The Weight Off Is The Challenge – Reuters Health (free)
Editorial: Modern Electroconvulsive Therapy: Vastly Improved Yet Greatly Underused – JAMA Psychiatry (free) (RT @JAMA_current see Tweet)
In this observational study, electroconvulsive therapy was associated with reduced 30-day readmission risk among psychiatric inpatients with severe affective disorders.
9 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 3 July 2017 – The BMJ Blogs (free)
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals.
10 – Functional Dyspepsia: Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy – Gut and Liver (free)
Commentary: Diagnosis and Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia – PracticeUpdate (free registration required)
Related guideline: ACG and CAG Clinical Guideline: Management of Dyspepsia – American College of Gastroenterology and Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (free PDF)
International Society of Sports Nutrition Position Stand: protein and exercise
3 Jul, 2017 | 18:02h | UTC
Rest tremor revisited: Parkinson’s disease and other disorders
3 Jul, 2017 | 18:00h | UTCRest tremor revisited: Parkinson’s disease and other disorders – Translational Neurodegeneration (free)
Single-cell sequencing made simple
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:14h | UTCSingle-cell sequencing made simple – Nature News (free)
“Data from thousands of single cells can be tricky to analyse, but software advances are making it easier”.
Obesity and microbiota: an example of an intricate relationship
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:59h | UTCObesity and microbiota: an example of an intricate relationship – Genes & Nutrition (free)
The practice of tracheostomy decannulation
3 Jul, 2017 | 18:01h | UTCThe practice of tracheostomy decannulation-a systematic review – Journal of Intensive Care (free)
Antibiotic Resistance Is Lurking in The Environment
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:56h | UTCAntibiotic Resistance Is Lurking in The Environment – The Atlantic (free)
“Immunity to a last-resort antibiotic can develop in bacteria that haven’t been exposed to that antibiotic”.
Reduced-intensity versus myeloablative allogeneic transplantation
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:39h | UTC
Benchmarking life expectancy and cancer mortality: global comparison with cardiovascular disease 1981-2010
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:58h | UTCEditorial: Cancer and the limits of longevity – The BMJ (free)
“Declining mortality from CVD was responsible for about half of the life expectancy gains in ages 40-84 in 1981-2010, whereas the contribution from cancer is smaller (up to one fifth) and varied depending on a country’s level of development”
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for sickle cell anemia
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:40h | UTC
Emerging concepts in cytomegalovirus infection following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:38h | UTC
Checkpoint inhibitor-related pneumonitis
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:40h | UTC
Toxins in Brain! Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging of Toxic Leukoencephalopathy
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:34h | UTC
Hematopoietic cell transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adult patients
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:41h | UTC
Long-term complications after hematopoietic cell transplantation
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:35h | UTC
Depression following traumatic brain injury: prevalence, impact, and management challenges
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:37h | UTC
Medical Treatment of Nocturia in Men with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:26h | UTC
Potential Drug-Drug and Herb-Drug Interactions in Patients With Cancer
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:25h | UTCPotential Drug-Drug and Herb-Drug Interactions in Patients With Cancer: A Prospective Study of Medication Surveillance – Journal of Clinical Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Cancer patients should check drug list with pharmacist – Reuters Health (free) AND Cancer Patients’ Drug-to-Drug Interactions Have Consequences – Medscape (free registration required) AND Research Warns Patients of Drug-Drug and Herb-Drug Interactions – AJMC (free)
Perioperative Management of Neurological Conditions
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:33h | UTCPerioperative Management of Neurological Conditions – Health Services Insights (free)
How good is the evidence to support primary care practice?
3 Jul, 2017 | 17:20h | UTCHow good is the evidence to support primary care practice? – Evidence-Based Medicine (free)
Commentaries: Mediocre Evidence Behind Many Primary Care Decisions – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Primary care decisions often made without the best evidence – University of Georgia, via ScienceDaily (free)