Daily Archives: November 22, 2017

Wed, November 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!

22 Nov, 2017 | 01:36h | UTC

 

1 – Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial – The Lancet (free)

Editorial: No benefit of arthroscopy in subacromial shoulder pain (free)

Commentaries: Common shoulder surgery may offer little pain relief – OnMedica (free) AND Is a common shoulder surgery useless? – MedicalXpress (free) AND Popular Surgery To Ease Chronic Shoulder Pain Called Into Question – NPR (free)

 

2 – Hepatitis B Vaccination, Screening, and Linkage to Care: Best Practice Advice From the American College of Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: ACP, CDC issue best practice advice on HBV – ACP Internist (free) AND CDC, ACP Offer Joint Guidance on Hepatitis B Vaccination and Screening – Physician’s First Watch (free)

 

3 – Management of Tiny Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: A Comparative Effectiveness Analysis – JAMA Neurology (free)

Editorial: Leaving Tiny, Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms Untreated: Why Is It So Hard? (free)

 

4 – Association of Hormonal Contraception With Suicide Attempts and Suicides – American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Hormonal Contraception May Increase Risk of Suicide, Study Suggests – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND Oral Contraceptives Linked to Suicide – Medscape (free registration required)

 

5 – 2017 SEOM clinical guideline for treatment of cancer pain – Clinical and Translational Oncology (free)

 

6 – Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clincians (free)

Commentaries: Cancer: 42 percent of cases down to risk factors you can change – Medical News Today (free) AND Preventable Cancer Estimate Reaches 40% – MedPage Today (free registration required)

 

7 – New Choosing Wisely Canada list: Six Things Pharmacists and Patients Should Question (RT @CPhAAPhC see Tweet)

See more on the Choosing Wisely initiative in our April 5 issue (see #6)

 

8 – Deprescribing antihyperglycemic agents in older persons: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline – Canadian Family Physician (free)

Related algorithm: Antihyperglycemic deprescribing algorithm (free PDF)

See also other Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free resources)

 

9 – Detecting hip fractures with radiologist-level performance using deep neural networks – Cornell University Library (free)

Related: CheXNet: Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning – Stanford ML Group (free)

 

10 – Conjoint Associations of Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension With Diabetes, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Disease in Parents: A Retrospective Cohort Study – American Journal of Epidemiology (free)

Invited Commentary: Gestational Hypertension and Diabetes—A Major Public Health Concern (free)

Commentaries: Pregnancy-related conditions taken together leave moms — and dads — at risk – McGill University Health Centre, via EurekAlert (free) AND Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension = Huge Risk for Later Disease – Medscape (free registration required)

 

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