Daily Archives: July 4, 2017
Effect of specialist palliative care services on quality of life
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:23h | UTCThe meta-analysis showed a small effect on quality of life with specialist palliative care. The effect was most pronounced for patients with cancer and for those who received specialized care early.
Metformin May Reduce Coronary Calcium in Men
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:22h | UTCCommentary: Long-term Metformin May Reduce Coronary Calcium – Medscape (free registration required)
“Metformin may protect against atherosclerosis in men with pre-diabetes and early diabetes” (RT @CircAHA see Tweet)
Fears over a medical gold rush in cancer drug race
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:19h | UTCFears over a medical gold rush in cancer drug race – Financial Times (a few articles per month are free)
Source: Nature Newsletter
“With almost 800 trials under way observers warn scientific rigour is being compromised”
Common ED Medication Errors: Polypharmacy
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:17h | UTCCommon ED Medication Errors: Polypharmacy – emDocs (free)
Related: Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free)
Quality of Life in Dementia
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:20h | UTCQuality of Life in Dementia – The AMA Journal of Ethics (free)
“What can clinicians do to normalize the experience of dementia? Our new issue explores the ethics of dementia care” (RT @JournalofEthics see Tweet)
High Generic Drug Prices and Market Competition
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:21h | UTCHigh Generic Drug Prices and Market Competition: A Retrospective Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Generic drug prices increase when market competition decreases – American College of Physicians, via EurekAlert (free) AND Generic Drug Prices Rise When Market Competition Drops – Medscape (free registration required)
Immunology, one cell at a time
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:13h | UTCImmunology, one cell at a time – Nature News (free)
“Analysing the DNA, RNA and protein of single cells is transforming our understanding of the immune system, say Amir Giladi and Ido Amit”.
Who’s paying for lunch?
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:15h | UTC
The Future of Radiology and Artificial Intelligence
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:16h | UTCViewpoint: The Future of Radiology and Artificial Intelligence – The Medical Futurist (free)
“Radiologists who use AI will replace those who don’t”.
CONSORT 2010 statement: extension checklist for reporting within person randomised trials
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:20h | UTCResearch Methods & Reporting: CONSORT 2010 statement: extension checklist for reporting within person randomised trials – The BMJ (free)
“This document presents the CONSORT extension to within person trials. It aims to facilitate the reporting of these trials. It extends 16 items of the CONSORT 2010 checklist and introduces a modified flowchart and baseline table to enhance transparency”.
A Research Agenda for Communication Between Health Care Professionals and Patients Living With Serious Illness
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:12h | UTC
Tue, July 4 – 10 Stories of The Day!
4 Jul, 2017 | 00:54h | UTC
1 – Indications for Surgical Management of Hyperparathyroidism: A Review – JAMA Surgery (free)
2 – Redesigning Care for High-Cost, High-Risk Patients – Harvard Business Review (a few articles per month are free) (RT @pash22 see Tweet)
Related: Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs: Ten Recommendations for Policymakers – The Commonwealth Fund (free) AND Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients — An Urgent Priority – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Multimorbidity: clinical assessment and management – NICE Guideline (free) AND Multimorbidity in Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free) AND Focusing on High-Cost Patients — The Key to Addressing High Costs? – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND Richard Smith: The challenge of high need, high cost patients – The BMJ Blogs (free) AND Playbook: Better Care for People with Complex Needs – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
4 – Prognostic Value of Noninvasive Cardiovascular Testing in Patients With Stable Chest Pain – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: CT angiography appears better at predicting future risk for patients with chest pain – Massachusetts General Hospital, via ScienceDaily (free)
Source: EvidenceAlerts (free resource to find articles of interest)
“The most important result indicated that the ability of coronary CTA to identify nonobstructive coronary artery disease – a less-than-70-percent narrowing of a coronary artery – identifies an at-risk group of patients not found by functional testing” (from ScienceDaily).
5 – Social Determinants of Health Visualization – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (free interactive tool)
“The Social Determinants of Health visualization tool allows you to explore the relationships between determinants of health and health indicators across countries … users can visualize the relationships between these determinants and life expectancy, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) by cause, years lived with disability (YLDs) by cause, and causes of death”.
6 – The 8 Things That End Childhood Too Soon: What Clinicians Should Know – Medscape (free registration required)
See also: Stolen Childhoods: End of Childhood Report 2017 (free PDF) AND Save the Children Website (free)
“In this report, Save the Children examined the life events that often signal the end of childhood for too many of the world’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged kids: girls, refugees, street children, and children with disabilities” (from Medscape).
7 – Obesity Pathogenesis: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement – Endocrine Reviews (free PDF)
Commentaries: Endocrine Society issues Scientific Statement on obesity’s causes – The Endocrine Society, via EurekAlert (free) AND After Weight Loss, How To Keep The Weight Off Is The Challenge – Reuters Health (free)
Editorial: Modern Electroconvulsive Therapy: Vastly Improved Yet Greatly Underused – JAMA Psychiatry (free) (RT @JAMA_current see Tweet)
In this observational study, electroconvulsive therapy was associated with reduced 30-day readmission risk among psychiatric inpatients with severe affective disorders.
9 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 3 July 2017 – The BMJ Blogs (free)
Richard Lehman’s weekly review of medical journals.
10 – Functional Dyspepsia: Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy – Gut and Liver (free)
Commentary: Diagnosis and Treatment of Functional Dyspepsia – PracticeUpdate (free registration required)
Related guideline: ACG and CAG Clinical Guideline: Management of Dyspepsia – American College of Gastroenterology and Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (free PDF)
Single-cell sequencing made simple
4 Jul, 2017 | 21:14h | UTCSingle-cell sequencing made simple – Nature News (free)
“Data from thousands of single cells can be tricky to analyse, but software advances are making it easier”.