Daily Archives: July 3, 2018
Tue, July 3 – 10 Stories of The Day!
3 Jul, 2018 | 00:06h | UTC
Commentary: Foleys Aren’t Fun: Patient Study Shows Catheter Risks – University of Michigan, via NewsWise (free)
“More than half of patients surveyed while they had a urinary catheter, and again weeks later, reported a complication – and infections were only part of the problem” (from NewsWise)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
“Out-of-hours discharge from an ICU is strongly associated with both in-hospital death and ICU readmission. Whether these increases in mortality and readmission result from patient differences, differences in care, or a combination remains unclear”.
3 – Review: Chronic hyperkalemia in non-dialysis CKD: controversial issues in nephrology practice – Journal of Nephrology (free)
4 – Opinion: Endless Gaming May Be a Bad Habit. That Doesn’t Make It a Mental Illness – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related: Gaming addiction as a mental disorder: it’s premature to pathologise players – The Conversation (free)
“The World Health Organization has made “internet gaming” a diagnosable disorder. But many experts aren’t even sure it exists”.
5 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 2 July 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.
Invited Commentary: Ebola virus disease: 11 323 deaths later, how far have we come? (free)
Related: Ebola Outbreak in Congo ‘Largely Contained’, says WHO (free statement and commentary)
Commentaries: Patient-centred care for multimorbidity: an end in itself? – The Lancet (free) AND Results of the largest ever multimorbidity trial in primary care challenge current thinking -NIHR News (free)
Related: Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs: Ten Recommendations for Policymakers (series of free articles on the topic) AND Multimorbidity: A Priority for Global Health Research (free report and commentaries)
“In the largest ever trial of an intervention to treat people with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in primary care, NIHR-researchers found that the patient-centred approach taken improved patients’ experience of their care but did not improve their health-related quality of life. This is a challenge to current thinking on which UK and international guidelines are based”. (from NIHR News)
8 – Association of Coffee Drinking With Mortality by Genetic Variation in Caffeine Metabolism: Findings From the UK Biobank – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Expert reaction to research association between coffee and lower risk of death – Science Media Centre (free) AND Fresh grounds for coffee: Study shows it may boost longevity – Associated Press (free) AND Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too – NPR (free)
Related Studies: Meta-Analysis: Coffee consumption and health (free research and commentaries) AND Coffee Drinking and Mortality Studies (link to abstract and commentaries)
Another observational study showing possible benefits from drinking coffee.
Invited Commentary: Unmet Survivorship Care Needs of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors (free)
Related Reviews: Endocrine late-effects of childhood cancer and its treatments – European Journal of Endocrinology (free) AND Metabolic syndrome induced by anticancer treatment in childhood cancer survivors – Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism (free) AND Screening and management of adverse endocrine outcomes in adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (free)
Related Guidelines and Reviews: Prevention and Monitoring of Cardiac Dysfunction in Survivors of Adult Cancers: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline (free) AND Cardio-Onco-Hematology in Clinical Practice. Position Paper and Recommendations – Revista Espanola de Cardiologia (free) AND 2016 ESC Position Paper on cancer treatments and cardiovascular toxicity developed under the auspices of the ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (free) AND Canadian Cardiovascular Society Guidelines for Evaluation and Management of Cardiovascular Complications of Cancer Therapy (free) AND Cardiotoxicity of anticancer treatments: Epidemiology, detection, and management – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (free)