Daily Archives: July 8, 2017
Medication nonadherence may increase health care costs
8 Jul, 2017 | 20:19h | UTCLongitudinal Patterns of Medication Nonadherence and Associated Health Care Costs – Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Taking medications as prescribed important to control health care costs – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, via EurekAlert (free)
In this small study, patients with increasing nonadherence over time demonstrate more than a 3-fold increase in costs compared with adherent patients.
Doxycycline may be a safer first option for treating a blistering skin condition
8 Jul, 2017 | 20:28h | UTCDoxycycline may be a safer first option for treating a blistering skin condition – NIHR Signal (free)
Original Article: Doxycycline versus prednisolone as an initial treatment strategy for bullous pemphigoid: a pragmatic, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (free) AND Editorial: Doxycycline: a first-line treatment for bullous pemphigoid? (free)
Association of Playing High School Football With Cognition and Mental Health Later in Life
8 Jul, 2017 | 20:22h | UTCEditorial: Reassuring News About Football and Cognitive Decline? Not So Fast
Commentaries: What Are Outcomes Later in Life for High School Football Players? – The JAMA Network (free) AND High School Football: No Link to Later Cognitive Decline – Medscape (free registration required)
The Smart-Medicine Solution to the Health-Care Crisis
8 Jul, 2017 | 20:16h | UTCViewpoint: The Smart-Medicine Solution to the Health-Care Crisis – The Wall Street Journal (by @EricTopol) (a few articles per month are free)
“Our health-care system won’t be fixed by insurance reform. To contain costs and improve results, we need to move aggressively to adopt the tools of information-age medicine”.
Expert opinion is not always right
8 Jul, 2017 | 20:24h | UTCExpert opinion is not always right – Students 4 Best Evidence (free)
This is the sixth in a series of 34 blogs based on a list of ‘Key Concepts’ developed by an Informed Health Choices project team.