Daily Archives: September 7, 2018
Fri, September 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!
7 Sep, 2018 | 02:15h | UTC
1 – Guideline: Pancreatitis – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
Editorial: Primary prevention with statins for older adults (free)
Commentaries: Expert reaction to study on use of statins in older people – Science Media Centre (free) AND Widespread use of statins in healthy older people to prevent heart disease not recommended in new study – BMJ, via ScienceDaily (free)
“New research does not support widespread use of statins in healthy older people to prevent heart disease and stroke. Results found that any protective effect was limited to those with type 2 diabetes aged between 75 and 84” (via @bmj_latest see Tweet)
4 – Commission: High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution – The Lancet Global Health (free articles)
Related Article: Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era: a systematic analysis of amenable deaths in 137 countries – The Lancet (free)
Editorial: Putting quality and people at the centre of health systems – The Lancet (free)
Commentaries: Political and technical barriers to improving quality of health care – The Lancet (free) AND What Kills 5 Million People A Year? It’s Not Just Disease – NPR (free)
Related Report: Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide (free report and commentaries)
5 – The 2018 Surviving Sepsis Campaign’s Treatment Bundle: When Guidelines Outpace the Evidence Supporting Their Use – Annals of Emergency Medicine (free) (via @EMNerd)
Related Opinions: Petition to retire the surviving sepsis campaign guidelines – PulmCrit (free) AND The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: A Rush to Judgment – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Original Guideline: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Bundle: 2018 update – Intensive Care Medicine (free)
6 – Tuberculosis: the curable disease on the rise, and how to tackle it – The Guardian (free)
7 – The treatment of anal fistula: second ACPGBI Position Statement – 2018 – Colorectal Disease (free)
Commentaries: First-Ever Guidelines for Detecting, Treating Perimenopausal Depression – University of Illinois at Chicago, via NewsWise (free) AND Guidelines for Managing Perimenopausal Depression Now Available – MPR (free)
News Release: Telehealth Proves Valuable for Promoting Safe Antibiotic Prescribing Practices in Remote Healthcare Settings – Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (free)
Commentary: VA pilot study finds telehealth could aid stewardship – CIDRAP (free)
Related Article: Post-Antibiotic Gut Mucosal Microbiome Reconstitution Is Impaired by Probiotics and Improved by Autologous FMT – Cell (free)
Commentaries: Probiotics: Does the evidence match the hype? – Medical News Today (free) AND Probiotics labelled ‘quite useless’ – BBC (free)