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Fri, August 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

17 Aug, 2018 | 01:16h | UTC

 

1 – 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Adults With Congenital Heart Disease (free PDF)

News Release: Societies Release Updated Guideline for Treating Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients (free)

Key Points to Remember: 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline for Adults With Congenital Heart Disease – American College of Cardiology (free)

 

2 – Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU – Critical Care Medicine (free) (via @Abraham_RMI)

 

3 – Association of Compensation From the Surgical and Medical Device Industry to Physicians and Self-declared Conflict of Interest – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period)

Author Interview: Association of Compensation to Physicians From Industry and Self-declared Conflict of Interest (free)

Commentaries: Safeguarding Against Conflicts of Interest in the Surgical Literature – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period) AND Financial Ties That Bind: Studies Often Fall Short On Conflict-Of-Interest Disclosures – Kaiser Health News (free)

 

4 – Recent trends in life expectancy across high income countries: retrospective observational study – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Reversals in life expectancy in high income countries? (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Life Expectancy Declining Across High Income Countries – Eurasia Review (free) AND Australians living longer but life expectancy dips in US and UK – The Guardian (free) AND UK life expectancy drops while other western countries improve – NHS Choices (free)

 

5 – Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic groups in the United States: systematic analysis of vital statistics – The BMJ (free)

Infographic: Why is US Life Expectancy Falling Behind? (free PDF)

Commentary: Life expectancy drops in the US and the UK, rises in Australia, a new study finds – CNN (free)

 

6 – Keeping Up With Cardiology: Old-School Learning Versus the Twittersphere – TCTMD (free)

Related: Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops? – Facets (free) AND Rise of the Tweetorial – Precious Bodily Fluids (free) AND Social Medicine: Twitter in Healthcare – Journal of Clinical Medicine (free) AND University of Twitter? Scientists give impromptu lecture critiquing nutrition research – CBC (free) AND Twitter-Based Medicine: How Social Media is Changing the Public’s View of Medicine – The Health Care Blog (free) AND What’s your doctor reading? How social media is disrupting medical education – National Post (free)

 

7 – Effect of Peer Comparison Letters for High-Volume Primary Care Prescribers of Quetiapine in Older and Disabled Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Behavioral nudges lead to striking drop in prescriptions of potent antipsychotic – Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Study Reduces Over-prescription of Antipsychotics in Older Adults – Mad in America (free) AND ‘Dear Doctor’ Letters Use Peer Pressure, Government Warning To Stop Overprescribing – NPR (free) AND Peer Pressure Tactic Successfully Curbs Overprescribing – Medscape (free registration required)

 

8 – Smoking Cessation, Weight Change, Type 2 Diabetes, and Mortality – The New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Weight gain after smoking cessation linked with increased short-term diabetes risk – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (free) AND Weight gain temporarily hikes diabetes risk when smokers quit – Reuters (free) AND Smokers Are Better Off After They Quit Even if They Gain Weight – Physician’s First Watch (free)

 

9 – Endovascular coiling versus neurosurgical clipping for people with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage – Cochrane Library (free for a limited period)

Summary: Endovascular coiling versus neurosurgical clipping for people with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage – Cochrane Library (free)

 

10 – Association of Maternal Insecticide Levels With Autism in Offspring From a National Birth Cohort – The American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Autism and DDT: What one million pregnancies can — and can’t — reveal – Nature News (free) AND Epidemiologists Link DDT From The 1970s To Modern Autism Diagnoses – Science 2.0 (free – skeptical point of view on study results)

 


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