Guidelines & Reports
The Global Commission on the Future of Work Calls for Fundamental Changes in Health at Work
3 Feb, 2019 | 16:54h | UTCOriginal Report: Work for a brighter future: Global Commission on the Future of Work – International Labour Organization (free)
Brazilian Guidelines for the Indication, Interpretation and Performance of Nailfold Capillaroscopy
3 Feb, 2019 | 16:48h | UTC
Consensus: Assessment and Management of Measurable Residual Disease in Adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
3 Feb, 2019 | 16:44h | UTC
Guidelines on Analgesia and Sedation in Newborn Infants Undergoing Assisted Ventilation and Endotracheal Intubation
3 Feb, 2019 | 16:39h | UTC
AGS 2019 Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults
3 Feb, 2019 | 16:02h | UTCNews Release: For older people, medications are common; AGS Beers Criteria aims to make them appropriate, too (free)
Commentary: AGS: Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Med Use in Older Adults Updated – MPR (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
The #AGSBeersCriteria includes lists of medications that may be inappropriate or unsafe for older adults. See the latest updates for 2019: https://t.co/qGB5Y1cD7S pic.twitter.com/ow0xds2gN7
— American Geriatrics Society (@AmerGeriatrics) February 1, 2019
Polypharmacy Guideline: Getting it Right for People Prescribed Many Medicines
3 Feb, 2019 | 15:53h | UTCPolypharmacy: Getting our medicines right – Royal Pharmaceutical Society (free)
Shorter Version: Polypharmacy (free)
Commentary: Pharmacists call for regular reviews of medicines – BBC (free)
Related: Reducing Inappropriate Medication Use & Polypharmacy (several articles and commentaries on the subject)
ATS Guideline: Home Oxygen Therapy for Children
3 Feb, 2019 | 15:48h | UTCNews Release: ATS Publishes New Clinical Guideline on Home Oxygen for Children (free)
Position Statement: Clear Fluids Fasting for Elective Pediatric Anesthesia
3 Feb, 2019 | 13:44h | UTC
Related Guidelines: Practice Guidelines for Preoperative Fasting and the Use of Pharmacologic Agents to Reduce the Risk of Pulmonary Aspiration: Application to Healthy Patients Undergoing Elective Procedures: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Preoperative Fasting and the Use of Pharmacologic Agents to Reduce the Risk of Pulmonary Aspiration (free) AND Perioperative fasting in adults and children: guidelines from the European Society of Anaesthesiology (free)
Related Systematic Review: Practice Guideline Recommendations on Perioperative Fasting – Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (free)
Related Narrative Review: Nothing by Mouth at Midnight: Saving or Starving? A Literature Review – Gastroenterology Nursing (free)
“‘It is safe and recommended for all children able to take clear fluids, to be allowed and encouraged to have them up to 1 h before elective general anaesthesia’.”
Guideline: Management of Depression with Specific Comorbid Psychiatric Conditions
3 Feb, 2019 | 13:08h | UTCRelated Guideline: Depression in adults: recognition and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
AACE/ACE Comprehensive Type 2 Diabetes Management Algorithm 2019
1 Feb, 2019 | 02:50h | UTCAACE/ACE Comprehensive Type 2 Diabetes Management Algorithm 2019 – Endocrine Practice (Free PDF and Slide Presentations)
Related Guidelines: ADA 2019 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes (free supplement) AND Diabetes Canada 2018 clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes in Canada (free)
USPSTF Statement: Ocular Prophylaxis for Gonococcal Ophthalmia Neonatorum
1 Feb, 2019 | 02:35h | UTC“The USPSTF recommends prophylactic ocular topical medication for all newborns to prevent gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. (A recommendation)”
ESC Position Statement: Depression and Coronary Heart Disease
30 Jan, 2019 | 23:30h | UTC
FSRH Clinical Guidance: Combined Hormonal Contraception
30 Jan, 2019 | 00:47h | UTCCommentaries: No benefit to contraception pill intervals — according to guidance – OnMedica (free) AND Is it OK to take the pill every day without a break? – BBC News (free)
AHA Presidential Advisory: Urgent Challenges in Cardiovascular Disease
30 Jan, 2019 | 00:44h | UTCNews Release: Lagging drug innovation, variations in quality of care and rising health care costs remain major barriers in fight against cardiovascular disease (free)
Commentaries: AHA issues ‘urgent’ call to action: 5 things to know – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND AHA Warns of Stagnating CVD Gains, Barriers to Access, and Dismal Drug Pipeline – TCTMD (free)
British Guideline for the Management of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
30 Jan, 2019 | 00:51h | UTCCommentary: UK Gonorrhea Guideline Guards Against Antibiotic Resistance – MD Magazine (free)
Related Guideline: WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae – World Health Organization (free)
Consensus Statement: Targeted Treatment of Primary Aldosteronism
29 Jan, 2019 | 22:01h | UTC
Brazilian Guidelines for the Treatment of Systemic Autoimmune Myopathies
29 Jan, 2019 | 21:49h | UTC
Atrial Fibrillation Guideline: 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update
29 Jan, 2019 | 00:08h | UTCNews Release: Updated treatment guidelines for atrial fibrillation recommend a new class of blood thinners to help prevent stroke – American Heart Association (free)
Commentaries: Focused Update of the AHA/ACC/HRS Atrial Fibrillation Guideline – American College of Cardiology (free) AND
European Practical and Patient-Centred Guidelines for Adult Obesity Management in Primary Care
29 Jan, 2019 | 00:07h | UTC
The Lancet Commission Report: The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change
28 Jan, 2019 | 23:52h | UTCThe Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report (free registration required)
Commentaries: Take on food industry to beat malnutrition and obesity, says report – The Guardian (free) AND Want to fix obesity and climate change at the same time? Make Big Food companies pay. – VOX (free) AND To fix climate change, fix the obesity and starvation epidemics, reports say – CNN (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter
The #GlobalSyndemic: #Undernutrition & #obesity are not simply the result of too few or too many calories. Both are driven by the same unhealthy, inequitable food systems, underpinned by a political economy focused on economic growth, not health https://t.co/k3gkUnliyw pic.twitter.com/zKwY08YSEF
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) January 27, 2019
ASCO Standards: Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs
28 Jan, 2019 | 23:29h | UTCSafe Handling of Hazardous Drugs: ASCO Standards – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)
Summary: Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs (free)
Editorial: ASCO Standards for Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs (free)
News Release: New Standards for Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs Focus on Developing Evidence-Based Measures (free)
French Guidelines of Intubation and Extubation of the ICU Patient
27 Jan, 2019 | 20:43h | UTC
Diabetes Guidelines: Key Messages for Family Physicians
27 Jan, 2019 | 20:41h | UTCOriginal Guideline: Diabetes Canada 2018 clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes in Canada (free) AND Quick Reference Guide (free PDF)
See also: ADA 2019 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes (free supplement) AND Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2019 Abridged for Primary Care Providers (free PDF)
Report: The Efficacy and Safety of Vertebral Augmentation
27 Jan, 2019 | 20:19h | UTCCommentaries: Spinal Fractures Can Be Terribly Painful. A Common Treatment Isn’t Helping – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Spinal Fusions Ineffective for Fracture Pain, Says ASBMR – Medscape (free registration required)
Related: Randomized Trial: Vertebroplasty vs. Sham Procedure for Acute Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures – The BMJ (free study and commentary) AND Cochrane Review: percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (free article and summary)
Thailand Dyspepsia Guidelines
27 Jan, 2019 | 20:11h | UTCThailand Dyspepsia Guidelines: 2018 – Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility (free)