Daily Archives: March 29, 2018

Thu, March 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!

29 Mar, 2018 | 00:54h | UTC

 

1 – Guideline: Otitis media (acute): antimicrobial prescribing – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (free)

Commentaries: Most common ear infections should not be treated with antibiotics, says NICE (free) AND Common ear infections don’t need antibiotics, health watchdog says – The Guardian (free) AND Antibiotics not recommended for acute otitis, says NICE – OnMedica (free)

Related guideline: Clinical Practice Guideline: Otitis Media with Effusion (Update) – Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg (free) AND Executive Summary – Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg (free)

 

2 – Guideline: Stop smoking interventions and services – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (free)

Commentaries: Help people make informed decisions when they want to quit smoking, says NICE and Public Health England – NICE News Release (free) AND Doctors should tell patients e-cigarettes ‘less harmful than smoking but not without risk’ – iNews (free)

Related guidelines and reports:  E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products: evidence review – Public Health England (free PDF) AND Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (free PDF) AND E-cigarettes: balancing risks and opportunities – British Medical Association (free PDF) AND Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction – Royal College of Physicians (free summary and PDF) AND RCGP Position Statement on the use of electronic nicotine vapour products (E-Cigarettes) – Royal College of General Practitioners (free PDF)

 

3 – Safety and mosquitocidal efficacy of high-dose ivermectin when co-administered with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in Kenyan adults with uncomplicated malaria (IVERMAL): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free registration required)

Commentaries: Ivermectin: repurposing an old drug to complement malaria vector control – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free registration required) AND LSTM study shows drug that kills mosquitoes could be used to fight malaria – London School of Tropical Medicine (free) AND Common anti-parasitic could be new tool for malaria control – OnMedica (free)

 

4 – Psychosocial Effects of Parent-Child Book Reading Interventions: A Meta-analysis – Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Reading programs may teach parents and kids more than literacy – Reuters (free) AND Parent-child reading interventions have positive psychosocial effects – 2 Minute Medicine (free)

 

5 – Pain Management in Cancer Center Inpatients: A Cluster Randomized Trial to Evaluate a Systematic Integrated Approach—The Edinburgh Pain Assessment and Management Tool – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)

Commentaries: Cancer patients’ pain eased by simple bedside chart – University of Edinburgh, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Bedside Assessment Tool Improves Worst Pain in Patients With Cancer – Oncology Nurse Advisor (free) AND Effect of Integrated Assessment and Management Tool on Pain Management in Cancer Center Inpatients – The ASCO Post (free)

 

6 – Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: February 2018 – eCancer News (free)

 

7 – Prevalence and causes of vision loss in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections – British Journal of Ophthalmology (free)

Commentary: Half of vision impairment in first world is preventable – Cambridge Network (free)

 

8 – Life After Stroke: a round up of Cochrane evidence – Evidently Cochrane (free)

 

9 – Smoking and smoking cessation in relation to risk of diabetes in Chinese men and women: a 9-year prospective study of 0·5 million people – The Lancet Public Health (free)

Commentaries: Combating diabetes in China: a long-term perspective is needed – The Lancet Public Health (free) AND Smoking linked with higher risk of type 2 diabetes – University of Oxford (free)

“Among Chinese adults, smoking associated with 18-33% increased risk of diabetes” (via @kamleshkhunti see Tweet)

 

10 – A Comparison of the Quick-SOFA and Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Criteria for the Diagnosis of Sepsis and Prediction of Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Chest (free)

Related meta-analysis and commentaries: Prognostic Accuracy of the Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment for Mortality in Patients With Suspected Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND For mortality prediction, qSOFA has poor sensitivity, moderate specificity, review finds – ACP Hospitalist (free) AND Systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria may be more sensitive than quick sequential organ failure assessment for predicting mortality in patients with suspected infection – 2 Minute Medicine (free)

“The SIRS was significantly superior to the qSOFA for sepsis diagnosis, and the qSOFA was slightly better than the SIRS in predicting hospital mortality. The association of both criteria could provide a better model to initiate or escalate therapy in patients with sepsis”.

 

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