Fri, July 6 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Report: Delivering quality health services: A global imperative for universal health coverage – World Health Organization (free)

News Release: Low quality healthcare is increasing the burden of illness and health costs globally (free)

Commentary: Universal quality healthcare coverage—a commitment to building a healthier and more productive society – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Related: Handbook for national quality policy and strategy: A practical approach for developing policy and strategy to improve quality of care – World Health Organization (free)

2 – Hypothalamic–Pituitary and Growth Disorders in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (free PDF)

Commentaries: Up to half of childhood cancer survivors will develop hormone disorders – The Endocrine Society, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Guideline Addresses Endocrine Effects After Childhood Cancer – Medscape (free registration required)

3 – Cost-effectiveness and Benefit-to-Harm Ratio of Risk-Stratified Screening for Breast Cancer: A Life-Table Model – JAMA Oncology (free)

Editorial: Implementation Challenges for Risk-Stratified Screening in the Era of Precision Medicine (free)

Author Interview: Cost-effectiveness and Benefit-to-Harm Ratio of Risk-Stratified Breast Cancer Screening (free)

Commentaries: New approach to breast cancer screening — tailoring guidelines for each patient — may save lives and money, study says – STAT (free) AND No screening is better for women with low breast cancer risk, finds study – Guardian (free) AND Breast Cancer Screening Only for Women at Higher Risk – Medscape (free registration required)

4 – Review: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: from mechanisms to therapies – European Heart Journal (free)

5 – Review: Anemia and Iron Deficiency in Heart Failure: Current Concepts and Emerging Therapies – Circulation (free)

6 – Hidden conflicts? – Science Magazine (free)

““Pay-later conflicts of interest” have gone largely unnoticed & entirely unpoliced”. (via @cpiller see Tweet)

7 – Clinical practice guidelines for the management of non-specific low back pain in primary care: an updated overview – European Spine Journal (free)

8 – Risks and benefits of direct oral anticoagulants versus warfarin in a real world setting: cohort study in primary care – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: Analysis Finds Less Bleeding — But Potentially Greater Mortality Risk — with Some Newer Anticoagulants – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)

9 – Species-specific activity of antibacterial drug combinations – Nature (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Study: For antibiotics, good things may come in pairs – CIDRAP (free) AND Combining antibiotics alters effectiveness, study says – UPI (free) AND As drug resistance grows, combining antibiotics could turn up new treatments – STAT (free)

10 – Continuous low-dose antibiotic prophylaxis for adults with repeated urinary tract infections (AnTIC): a randomised, open-label trial – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free)

Invited Commentary: Preventing urinary tract infections in patients with neurogenic bladder (free)