Daily Archives: August 29, 2018

Wed, August 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!

29 Aug, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – Report: Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide – National Academies Of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (free PDF)

News Release: Up to 8 Million Deaths Occur in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Yearly Due to Poor-Quality Health Care, Says New Report; Major Quality Chasm Must Be Fixed in Order to Reap Benefits of Universal Health Coverage (free)

Videos: The Scope of the Problem (free) AND Health Systems of the Future (free)

See also: Report Highlights (free PDF) AND Recommendations (free PDF)

 

2 – #ESCCongress – Partial Oral versus Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment of Endocarditis – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Partial Oral Treatment of Endocarditis – POET – American College of Cardiology (free) AND New treatment can halve hospital stays for some patients with heart infection – ESC Press Releases (free)

 

3 – #ESCCongress – High-sensitivity troponin in the evaluation of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome: a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Diagnosing myocardial infarction: a highly sensitive issue – The Lancet (free) AND Hs-TnI in Suspected ACS: High-STEACS Trial – American College of Cardiology (free)

“Introduction of a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I assay reclassified 1 in 6 patients with previously undetected myocardial necrosis, but did not lead to improved clinical outcomes in this large randomised trial” (via @chapdoc1 see Tweet)

“Very important study. What’s weird is that the “better” (more sensitive) troponin assays get, the less helpful the test becomes at the bedside. Look for a coming tsunami of iatrogenesis from overzealous evaluation of troponin bumps.” (via @drjohnm see Tweet)

 

4 – #ESCCongress – One-Year Outcomes after PCI Strategies in Cardiogenic Shock – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Less Is Still More in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock – NEJM Journal Watch (free for a limited period) AND 1-year outcomes still support culprit-only PCI for cardiogenic shock – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND CULPRIT-SHOCK: 1-Year Results Continue to Support Culprit-Only PCI for Shock Patients – TCTMD (free)

 

5 – #ESCCongress – Efficacy of telemedical interventional management in patients with heart failure (TIM-HF2): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, unmasked trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Telemedicine in Heart Failure Patients (TIM-HF2) – American College of Cardiology (free) AND ESC: Telemonitoring of HF Cuts Admissions, Mortality MedPage Today (free registration required)

 

6 – Global Mortality From Firearms, 1990-2016 – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Video Summary: Global Firearm Mortality, 1990-2016 – JAMA (free)

Infographic: Firearm deaths around the world 1990–2016 – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free) (via @kleachkemon)

Commentaries: Six countries in the Americas account for half of all firearm deaths – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free) AND Gun-related homicides, suicides kill more people than war, study says – CNN (free)

 

7 – Zackary Berger’s journal reviews, 28 August 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

 

8 – Guide to Statistics and Methods: Case-Control Studies: Using “Real-world” Evidence to Assess Association – JAMA (free for a limited period)

 

9 – Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or at Risk for Diabetes – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (free PDF)

Commentaries: NIDDK Updates ‘Guiding Principles’ for Diabetes, Prediabetes – Medscape (free registration required) AND NDEP revises principles for managing diabetes, prediabetes – Cardiovascular Business (free)

Related Book: Diabetes in America, 3rd Edition – National Institutes of Health (free reference book, just released)

 

10 – Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 – Nature Human Behavior (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: More social science studies just failed to replicate. Here’s why this is good – VOX (free) AND High-profile journals put to reproducibility test – Nature News (free) AND ‘Replication crisis’ spurs reforms in how science studies are done – ScienceNews (free) AND The Science Behind Social Science Gets Shaken Up—Again – WIRED (Free) AND In Psychology And Other Social Sciences, Many Studies Fail The Reproducibility Test – NPR (free)

“We replicated 21 social science experiments in Science or Nature. We succeeded with 13. Replication effect sizes were half of originals.” (via @BrianNosek see Tweet)

 

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