Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis
Review: Multiple Myeloma Emergencies
20 Sep, 2017 | 21:06h | UTCMultiple Myeloma Emergencies – emDocs (free)
Review: Diaphragm Dysfunction in Critical Illness
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:53h | UTCDiaphragm Dysfunction in Critical Illness – Chest (free PDF)
Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
Systematic review: Non-pharmacological self-management for people living with migraine or tension-type headache
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:54h | UTCCommentary: Non-Pharmacological Self-Management Effective for People With Migraine or Tension-Type Headache – PracticeUpdate (free registration required)
Overviews of systematic reviews: great promise, greater challenge
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:53h | UTCOverviews of systematic reviews: great promise, greater challenge – Systematic Reviews (free) (RT @hildabast see Tweet)
Review: Juvenile Stroke
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:47h | UTCJuvenile Stroke: A Practice-Oriented Overview – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free)
Commentary: German study dissects etiology behind juvenile stroke – Cardiovascular Business (free)
Review: The Evolution of Public Health Emergency Management as a Field of Practice
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:46h | UTCThe Evolution of Public Health Emergency Management as a Field of Practice – American Journal of Public Health (free) (RT @equitylist see Tweet)
Review: Common Drug Side Effects and Drug-Drug Interactions in Elderly Adults in Primary Care
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:44h | UTCCommon Drug Side Effects and Drug-Drug Interactions in Elderly Adults in Primary Care – Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, via Medscape (free registration required)
Systematic Review: Medications and mechanical interventions for induction of labour in outpatient settings
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:36h | UTCOriginal article: Pharmacological and mechanical interventions for labour induction in outpatient settings – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Meta-analysis: efficacy of probiotics in inflammatory bowel disease
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:43h | UTCCommentary: Probiotics May Have Benefits for Ulcerative Colitis, but Not Crohn’s Disease – Medscape (free registration required)
Systematic Review: Helping adults with severe mental illness get a job and to keep it
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:36h | UTCOriginal article: Interventions for obtaining and maintaining employment in adults with severe mental illness, a network meta-analysis – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Systematic Review: Attachment to the jejunum versus stomach for the reconstruction of pancreatic stump following pancreaticoduodenectomy
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:38h | UTCOriginal article: Pancreaticojejunostomy versus pancreaticogastrostomy reconstruction for the prevention of postoperative pancreatic fistula following pancreaticoduodenectomy – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
“There is no reliable evidence to support the use of pancreatojejunostomy over pancreatogastrostomy”
Systematic Review: Optimisation of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma patients
20 Sep, 2017 | 20:37h | UTCOriginal article: Optimisation of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for untreated Hodgkin lymphoma patients with respect to second malignant neoplasms, overall and progression-free survival: individual participant data analysis – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Meta-Analysis: Corticosteroids in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia
19 Sep, 2017 | 22:34h | UTCCorticosteroids in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis – Clinical Infectious Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Related Meta-analysis: Efficacy and Safety of Adjunctive Corticosteroids Therapy for Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – PLOS One (free) AND Efficacy and Safety of Corticosteroids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia – Chest (free) AND Adjunctive Systemic Corticosteroids for Hospitalized Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 2015 Update – Scientific Reports (free)
Review: Impact of Electronic Cigarettes on the Cardiovascular System
19 Sep, 2017 | 22:29h | UTC
Systematic Review: Strategies to reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections in primary care
19 Sep, 2017 | 22:18h | UTCOriginal article: Clinician-targeted interventions to influence antibiotic prescribing behaviour for acute respiratory infections in primary care: an overview of systematic reviews – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Review: Epidemiologic and clinical parameters of West Nile virus infections in humans
18 Sep, 2017 | 15:13h | UTCEpidemiologic and clinical parameters of West Nile virus infections in humans: a scoping review – BMC Infectious Diseases (free) (RT @MarkPNelder and @Onisillos)
Meta-Analysis: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention vs Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients With Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis
18 Sep, 2017 | 14:10h | UTCCommentary: CABG, PCI show similar long-term outcomes – Cardiovascular Business (free)
Review: Diagnostic Approach to Pulmonary Hypertension in Premature Neonates
18 Sep, 2017 | 14:01h | UTCDiagnostic Approach to Pulmonary Hypertension in Premature Neonates – Children (free)
Review: Diagnostic testing for Legionnaires’ disease
18 Sep, 2017 | 13:56h | UTCDiagnostic testing for Legionnaires’ disease – Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (free)
Review: Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
18 Sep, 2017 | 13:53h | UTCCurrent Diagnosis and Management of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy – Global Spine Journal (free)
Reproductive planning for women after solid-organ transplant
18 Sep, 2017 | 13:51h | UTCReproductive planning for women after solid-organ transplant – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)
Review: A minimally invasive treatment for early GI cancers
18 Sep, 2017 | 13:52h | UTCA minimally invasive treatment for early GI cancers – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)
Antibiotic stewardship: Why we must, how we can
18 Sep, 2017 | 13:50h | UTCAntibiotic stewardship: Why we must, how we can – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)
Review: Poems Syndrome
18 Sep, 2017 | 13:49h | UTCPoems Syndrome: an Update – Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases (free)
Renal denervation: What happened, and why?
18 Sep, 2017 | 13:52h | UTCRenal denervation: What happened, and why? – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)