Daily Archives: October 30, 2017
Mon, October 30 – 10 Stories of The Day!
30 Oct, 2017 | 01:22h | UTC
1 – Book: Injury Prevention and Environmental Health – Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (free)
Press Release: Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition Launches Volume on Injury Prevention & Environmental Health (free)
Previous volumes: 1 – Essential Surgery / 2 – Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health / 3 – Cancer / 4 – Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders
2 – NICE Guideline: Sinusitis (acute): antimicrobial prescribing (free)
News release: Antibiotics should not be used to treat the majority of sinus infections, NICE says (free)
3 – NICE Guideline: Cystic fibrosis: diagnosis and management (free)
News release: People with cystic fibrosis could be monitored through phone or video messaging, says NICE (free)
4 – NICE Guideline: Cataracts in adults: management (free)
News release: Take a patient-centred approach to treating cataracts, says NICE (free)
See also: Summary of KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors (free)
News release: KDIGO Guidelines on Living Kidney Donors: A Call for A Paradigm Shift (free)
Commentaries: The More Lavish the Gifts to Doctors, the Costlier the Drugs They Prescribe – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Study finds even small gifts from pharma companies change prescribing habits – FierceHealthcare (free) AND Pharma gifts to providers result in more branded, expensive prescriptions – Georgetown University Medical Center, via EurekAlert (free)
7 – Why we need better evidence – Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford (free)
“20 fundamental problems with the production of evidence” (RT @CochraneUK see Tweet)
8 – Viewpoint: The Evolution of Patient Diagnosis: From Art to Digital Data-Driven Science – JAMA (free)
9 – Review: Acute Management of Pulmonary Embolism – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)
10 – Daytime variation of perioperative myocardial injury in cardiac surgery and its prevention by Rev-Erbα antagonism: a single-centre propensity-matched cohort study and a randomised study – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Why Heart Surgery May be Better in the Afternoon – Scientific American (free) AND Afternoon heart surgery has lower risk of complications, study suggests – The Guardian (free) AND Aortic Valve Replacement: Afternoon Surgery Linked to Fewer Adverse Events – Physician’s First Watch (free)