Daily Archives: November 21, 2018
Wed, November 21 – 10 Stories of The Day!
21 Nov, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
Commentaries: Panel recommends everyone at high risk of getting HIV be offered a prevention pill – STAT (free) AND U.S. officials recommend use of PrEP pills to stop spread of HIV – UPI (free)
Related Clinical Guidelines: HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (free articles)
Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
3 – Intermediate Diabetes Outcomes in Patients Managed by Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, or Physician Assistants: A Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Diabetes outcomes similar when primary care provided by NPs, PAs, or physicians, study finds – ACP Internist Weekly (free) AND Diabetics Cared for by NPs, PAs Do as Well as Those in Physicians’ Care – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
5 – Replication failures in psychology not due to differences in study populations – Nature (free)
Related: Evaluating the Replicability of Social Science Experiments (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Essay: The Experiments Are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
6 – Overall Survival with Palbociclib and Fulvestrant in Advanced Breast Cancer – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Drug improves survival in metastatic breast cancer – Northwestern University (free)
7 – Report: 2018 Access to Medicine Index – Access to Medicine Foundation (free PDF)
Commentaries: Big pharma leaves big gaps: drugmakers urged to do more for poor – Reuters (free) AND Big pharma ‘failing to develop urgent drugs for poorest countries’ – The Guardian (free)
8 – Ezetimibe for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and all‐cause mortality events – Cochrane Library (free)
Summary: Ezetimibe for the prevention of heart disease and death – Cochrane Library (free)
In individuals with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, Ezetimibe has modest beneficial effects, primarily driven by a reduction in non‐fatal MI and non‐fatal stroke, but with little or no effect on clinical fatal endpoints.
10 – Improving the quality of life of care home residents with dementia: Cost-effectiveness of an optimized intervention for residents with clinically significant agitation in dementia – Alzheimer’s & Dementia (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Care homes with dementia ‘carer champions’ reduce agitation and antipsychotics – carehome.co.uk (free) AND Improving dementia care and treatment saves thousands of pounds in care homes – University of Exeter (free)