Guidelines & Reports
Guideline: Defining Optimal Brain Health in Adults
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:36h | UTCSee also: Advisory Highlights: Seven steps to keep your brain healthy from childhood to old age (free) AND News release: As brain problems increase, experts offer advice to keep yours healthy (free) AND Commentary: Optimal Cardiovascular Health and a Healthy Brain (free) AND Top Ten Things to Know: Defining Optimal Brain Health in Adults (free PDF)
Commentary: Heart and Stroke Groups Issue Advisory on Optimal Brain Health – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Report: Everybody active, every day: an evidence-based approach to physical activity
10 Sep, 2017 | 01:35h | UTCEverybody active, every day: an evidence-based approach to physical activity – Public Health England (free report and other documents)
See also: 10 minutes brisk walking each day in mid-life for health benefits and towards achieving physical activity recommendations: evidence summary (free PDF)
Press release: 6 million adults do not do a monthly brisk 10-minute walk (free)
Commentaries: 10-minute walk a day app to tackle ‘inactivity epidemic’ – NHS Choices (free) AND 6 million middle-aged people take no exercise – The Guardian (free)
Stop smoking services can work for people in treatment or recovery from substance misuse disorders
9 Sep, 2017 | 18:30h | UTCStop smoking services can work for people in treatment or recovery from substance misuse disorders – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Interventions for tobacco use cessation in people in treatment for or recovery from substance use disorders – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Humidified oxygen linked to increased chest infections
8 Sep, 2017 | 02:10h | UTCHumidified oxygen linked to increased chest infections – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Is humidified better than non-humidified low-flow oxygen therapy? A systematic review and meta-analysis – Journal of Advanced Nursing (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Guideline: Managing menopausal symptoms and associated clinical issues in breast cancer survivors
8 Sep, 2017 | 00:34h | UTCManaging menopausal symptoms and associated clinical issues in breast cancer survivors – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: New recommendations for managing menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors – The Endocrine Society (free) AND Managing Menopause Symptoms After Breast Cancer – Medscape (free registration required)
Guideline: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
8 Sep, 2017 | 01:13h | UTCCommentaries: AGA releases recommendations on therapeutic drug monitoring in IBD – ACP Gastroenterology (free) AND New Guideline for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Journal Watch (free)
Guideline – Endometriosis: diagnosis and management
7 Sep, 2017 | 20:21h | UTCEndometriosis: diagnosis and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (free)
News release: Suspect endometriosis in women with chronic pelvic pain, says NICE (free)
Guideline: diagnosis and treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis
7 Sep, 2017 | 20:17h | UTC
Guideline: treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
7 Sep, 2017 | 20:18h | UTC
Guideline: Vision Screening in Children Aged 6 Months to 5 Years
7 Sep, 2017 | 20:20h | UTCUSPSTF Recommendation Summary: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening (free)
Editorials: The 2017 US Preventive Services Task Force Report on Preschool Vision Screening – JAMA Ophthalmology (free) AND Vision Screening in Very Young Children—Making Sense of an Inexorable Diagnostic Process – JAMA Pediatrics (free)
Author interview: USPSTF Recommendation: Vision Screening in Children (free audio)
Guideline: Role of Non-Statin Therapies for LDL-Cholesterol Lowering in the Management of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk
7 Sep, 2017 | 20:14h | UTCCommentary: Updated Decision Pathway For Non-Statin Therapies Published – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
Guideline: Management of Atherosclerotic Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease
6 Sep, 2017 | 18:37h | UTCCommentary with highlights from the document: European Society for Vascular Surgery Guidelines on the Management of Atherosclerotic Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease (free)
Guideline: Diagnosis and empirical treatment of fever of unknown origin (FUO) in adult neutropenic patients
6 Sep, 2017 | 18:36h | UTCRelated Guidelines: Management of febrile neutropaenia: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (free) AND Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Children With Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Recipients: 2017 Update (free)
Comprehensive geriatric assessment may reduce risk of delirium after hip fracture
6 Sep, 2017 | 18:34h | UTCComprehensive assessment may reduce risk of delirium after hip fracture – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for Prevention of Delirium After Hip Fracture: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials – Journal of The American Geriatrics society (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
“Comprehensive geriatric assessment reduced the risk of delirium by 20% in patients having hip fracture surgery” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)
Report: Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
4 Sep, 2017 | 15:44h | UTCCan low doses of chemicals affect your health? A new report weighs the evidence – The Conversation (free)
Original report: Application of Systematic Review Methods in an Overall Strategy for Evaluating Low-Dose Toxicity from Endocrine Active Chemicals – The National Academies Press (free)
Related Scientific Statement: EDC-2: The Endocrine Society’s Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (free) AND Executive Summary (free)
Source: Global Health NOW Newsletter
Guideline: Self‐Care for the Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke
4 Sep, 2017 | 15:30h | UTC
Guideline: Obesity in Adolescents
4 Sep, 2017 | 14:20h | UTCCommittee Opinion: Obesity in Adolescents – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (free)
Commentary: ACOG Offers Tips for Managing Obesity in Adolescents – Physician’s First Watch (free)
Guideline: Indication and Timing of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Mature T-Cell and NK/T-Cell Lymphomas
4 Sep, 2017 | 13:57h | UTCClinical Practice Recommendations on Indication and Timing of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Mature T-Cell and NK/T-Cell Lymphomas: an International Collaborative Effort on Behalf of the Guidelines Committee of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary and Summary: Guideline on HCT for Certain Lymphoma Types – Hematology News (free registration required)
Guideline: diagnostics of indoor mould exposure
4 Sep, 2017 | 14:02h | UTC
Guideline: noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure
3 Sep, 2017 | 21:21h | UTCOfficial ERS/ATS clinical practice guidelines: noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure (free)
Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
Molluscum contagiosum is best left to clear by itself
3 Sep, 2017 | 21:13h | UTCMolluscum contagiosum is best left to clear by itself – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Interventions for cutaneous molluscum contagiosum – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
“Clinicians should advise people with a healthy immune system to leave molluscum contagiosum to clear by itself” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)
Guideline: Psoriasis: assessment and management
3 Sep, 2017 | 21:20h | UTCPsoriasis: assessment and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (free)
Guideline: Appropriate Use Criteria for Multimodality Imaging in Valvular Heart Disease
3 Sep, 2017 | 21:17h | UTCCommentary with highlights from the document: Appropriate Use Criteria Published for Valvular Heart Disease Imaging Tests – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
Consensus paper: The role of open abdomen in non-trauma patient
1 Sep, 2017 | 20:43h | UTCSource: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Guideline: Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation
1 Sep, 2017 | 18:54h | UTCSee also: National Guideline Clearinghouse Summary (free)