Daily Archives: March 16, 2017
Thu, Mar 16 – Top 10 Medical News Stories
16 Mar, 2017 | 00:01h | UTC
2 – Focused Update of the Valvular Heart Disease Guideline Released – Latest in Cardiology, American College of Cardiology (free) (RT @ACCinTouch)
3 – ECRI Institute Names Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2017 (free news release / free registration required to download the report)
Source: ECRI’s 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns – Medscape (free registration required)
“New report examines root causes for serious patient safety events”.
4 – What Hospitals Waste – ProPublica (free)
Source: What Hospitals Waste – Medscape (free registration required)
“The nation’s health care tab is sky-high. We’re tracking down the reasons. First stop: A look at all the perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away”
5 – Why clinical trial outcomes fail to translate into benefits for patients – Trials (free) (RT @BioMedCentral)
6 – Should hospitals — and doctors — apologize for medical mistakes? – The Washington Post (free)
7 – Depression Doubles Risk of Death After Heart Attack, Angina – Latest in Cardiology, American College of Cardiology (free) (RT @ACCmediacenter) #ACC17
“Effect persists for years, underscoring the need for mental health screening and treatment”
See also: Editorial – The growing problem of co-treatment with opioids and benzodiazepines (free)
Patients with concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepines had a substantially higher risk of an emergency room visit or inpatient admission for opioid overdose.
“Adopting and enforcing tighter air quality standards in China could save 3 million premature deaths each year”
Patients diagnosed with community acquired pneumonia had increased risk of heart failure in the following years.