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“Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the cancer patients they’ve saved, and reporters love to write about them. But deaths still vastly outnumber the rare successes.”

Opinion – Screening: How Overdiagnosis and Other Harms can Undermine the Benefits

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:59h | UTC

Screening: How overdiagnosis and other harms can undermine the benefits – Health News Review (free)

“All screening programs do harm, some do good as well.”

Study: Pain, Opioids, and Suicide Mortality

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:47h | UTC

Chronic Pain Among Suicide Decedents, 2003 to 2014: Findings From the National Violent Death Reporting System – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

Editorial: Pain, Opioids, and Suicide Mortality in the United States (free)

Commentaries: Chronic pain may contribute to suicide, study warns – Reuters(free) ANDChronic Pain Tied to Increased Suicide Risk – NEJM Physician’s First Watch(free) AND Increasing rates of chronic pain found among those who die by suicide – ACP Internist(free)

It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things. That’s Costly for All of Us

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:44h | UTC

It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things. That’s Costly for All of Us – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) (via @CaulfieldTim)

Study: Lifestyle Changes Reduce the Need for Blood Pressure Medications

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:40h | UTC

Lifestyle changes reduce the need for blood pressure medications – American Heart Association Meeting Report (free)

Commentary: Lifestyle Interventions Cut Need for Antihypertensives Within Months – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)

Randomized Trial: Therapeutic Tai Ji Quan Intervention vs a Multimodal Exercise Intervention to Prevent Falls Among Older Adults

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:37h | UTC

Effectiveness of a Therapeutic Tai Ji Quan Intervention vs a Multimodal Exercise Intervention to Prevent Falls Among Older Adults at High Risk of Falling: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Tai Chi May Work Best to Prevent Falls in Old Age – WebMD(free) ANDTai Ji Quan Can Reduce Falls in Elderly – MedicalResearch.com (free)

Randomized Trial: Preventing Cognitive Decline in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:36h | UTC

Preventing Cognitive Decline in Black Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Study provides evidence to prevent memory decline in older blacks with mild cognitive impairment – News Medical (free) AND Novel Intervention Markedly Slows Cognitive Decline in MCI – Medscape (free registration required)

Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:32h | UTC

Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals – ProPublica (free)

Perspective: The Moral Dilemma of Learning Medicine from the Poor

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:31h | UTC

The Moral Dilemma of Learning Medicine from the Poor – The Doctors Weight In (free) (via @kennylinafp)

“I learned good skills because I was allowed to practice on people who had no other option.”

Systematic Analysis: Mortality Due to Low-quality Health Systems in 137 countries

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:25h | UTC

High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution – The Lancet Global Health (free articles)

Editorial: Putting quality and people at the centre of health systems – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Political and technical barriers to improving quality of health care – The Lancet (free) AND What Kills 5 Million People A Year? It’s Not Just Disease – NPR (free)

Related Report: Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide (free report and commentaries)

Tuberculosis: the Curable Disease on the Rise, and How to Tackle It

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:23h | UTC

Tuberculosis: the curable disease on the rise, and how to tackle it – The Guardian (free)

Guidance: Use Plain English to Write to Patients

6 Sep, 2018 | 03:09h | UTC

Writing Outpatient Clinic Letters to Patients – Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (free PDF)

Commentaries: Doctors told to ditch Latin and use ‘plain English’ – BBC News (free) AND New drive to encourage doctors to write to patients in plain English – The Guardian (free) AND Rx for British Doctors: Use Plain English Instead of Latin – The New York Times (free)

“Guidance suggests specialists should avoid Latin terms, acronyms and convoluted language” (from The Guardian)

cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020

6 Sep, 2018 | 02:59h | UTC

cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 – Science Europe (free)

See also: 10 principles of Plan S (free PDF) AND Press Release (free PDF)

Commentaries: Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions – Nature News (free) AND ‘Plan S’ and ‘cOAlition S’ – Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications – European Commission (free) AND Science without publication paywalls: cOAlition S for the realisation of full and immediate Open Access – PLOS Biology (free)

“…free access to all scientific publications from publicly funded research is a moral right of citizens.” (from European Comission)

Study: Machine Learning Models in EHR Can Outperform Conventional Survival Models for Predicting Outcomes in CAD

6 Sep, 2018 | 03:02h | UTC

Machine learning models in electronic health records can outperform conventional survival models for predicting patient mortality in coronary artery disease – PLOS One (free)

Commentaries: AI beats doctors at predicting heart disease deaths – The Francis Crick Institute, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Novel AI algorithm beats cardiologists’ models in predicting heart disease mortality – Cardiovascular Business (free)

Perspective: Experts Brace for More Super-Resistant Gonorrhea

6 Sep, 2018 | 02:53h | UTC

Experts brace for more super-resistant gonorrhea – CIDRAP (free)

Perspective: Good Documentation

6 Sep, 2018 | 02:52h | UTC

Good Documentation – JAMA (free for a limited period)

“In this narrative medicine essay, the author, who transitioned from paper and pen to computer-generated electronic health record keeping wonders whether the self-select menu items ultimately dehumanizes both the patient and the physician.” (via @JAMA_current see Tweet)

Policy Statement: Child Passenger Safety

6 Sep, 2018 | 02:46h | UTC

Child Passenger Safety – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

News Release: AAP Updates Recommendations on Car Seats for Children (free)

Commentary: Children Should Remain in Rear-Facing Car Seats as Long as Possible – Physician’s First Watch (free)

Margaret McCartney: A Summary of Four and a Half Years of Columns in one Column

6 Sep, 2018 | 02:49h | UTC

Margaret McCartney: A summary of four and a half years of columns in one column – The BMJ (free) (via @oncology_bg)

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