Daily Archives: September 6, 2017
Ten Recommendations: Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs
6 Sep, 2017 | 18:41h | UTCRelated: Redesigning Care for High-Cost, High-Risk Patients – Harvard Business Review (a few articles per month are 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)
Scanning The Future, Radiologists See Their Jobs At Risk
6 Sep, 2017 | 18:38h | UTCScanning The Future, Radiologists See Their Jobs At Risk – NPR (free)
See more on the impact of artificial intelligence in healthcare in our June 14th issue (see #2) in our April 28th issue (see #1) and in our April 10th issue (see #8).
Study: Effects of Screening on Prostate Cancer Mortality
6 Sep, 2017 | 18:40h | UTCEditorial: Prostate Cancer Screening: Time to Question How to Optimize the Ratio of Benefits and Harms (free)
Commentaries: A new study claims prostate cancer screenings significantly reduce deaths. Not everyone agrees – STAT (free) AND New Study Offers Support for Prostate Testing – The New York Times (10 articles per month are 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)
Systematic Reviews on Headache and migraine Prevention and Treatment
6 Sep, 2017 | 18:35h | UTCHeadache and migraine: interventions for preventing or treating headache and migraine – Cochrane Library (free) (RT @CochraneUK see Tweet)
Migraine awareness week (3-9 September). Latest Cochrane Evidence on interventions for preventing or treating headache and migraine.
Wed, September 6 – 10 Stories of The Day!
6 Sep, 2017 | 01:44h | UTC
Related: Redesigning Care for High-Cost, High-Risk Patients – Harvard Business Review (a few articles per month are 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)
Editorial: Prostate Cancer Screening: Time to Question How to Optimize the Ratio of Benefits and Harms (free)
Commentaries: A new study claims prostate cancer screenings significantly reduce deaths. Not everyone agrees – STAT (free) AND New Study Offers Support for Prostate Testing – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
3 – Scanning The Future, Radiologists See Their Jobs At Risk – NPR (free)
See more on the impact of artificial intelligence in healthcare in our June 14th issue (see #2), in our April 28th issue (see #1) and in our April 10th issue (see #8).
Commentaries: A.I., Big Data Project Predicts Dementia 2 Years Before Symptoms Onset, Researchers Show – Alzheimer’s News Today (free) AND Artificial intelligence predicts dementia before onset of symptoms – Science Daily (free)
See also related article and commentaries on Elevated Brain Amyloid and Subsequent Cognitive Decline Among Cognitively Normal Persons.
Commentary with highlights from the document: European Society for Vascular Surgery Guidelines on the Management of Atherosclerotic Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease (free)
Related 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)
7 – Headache and migraine: interventions for preventing or treating headache and migraine – Cochrane Library (free) (RT @CochraneUK see Tweet)
Migraine awareness week (3-9 September). Latest Cochrane Evidence on interventions for preventing or treating headache and migraine.
8 – Comprehensive 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)
“Even 1 to 2 times a week of moderate‐ to vigorous‐intensity physical activity might be beneficial to prevent a first‐ever stroke in the general population… from a public health perspective, we need to encourage inactive people to start exercising with more‐achievable goals”.
Commentary: Prolonged sitting and frailty a deadly combination – Medical News Today (free) AND Inactivity Toll Worst for Frailest Elders – Medscape (free registration required)
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)
Cohort Study: Physical Activity Frequency and the Risk of Stroke
6 Sep, 2017 | 18:32h | UTC“Even 1 to 2 times a week of moderate‐ to vigorous‐intensity physical activity might be beneficial to prevent a first‐ever stroke in the general population… from a public health perspective, we need to encourage inactive people to start exercising with more‐achievable goals”.