Fri, November 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Exploring Attributes of High-Value Primary Care – Annals of Family Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Lower cost, higher quality primary care practices are distinguished by six attributes – American Academy of Family Physicians, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Identifying ‘high-value’ practices in primary care; a Stanford study pinpoints key attributes – Stanford Medicine (free)

2 – Critical Lessons From High-Value Oncology Practices – JAMA Oncology (free)

Editorial: Strategies to Achieve High-Value Oncology Care: A Beginning (free)

Audio interview: Critical Lessons From High-Value Oncology Practices (free)

Commentary: High-Value Cancer Care Keeps Costs Down? Yes, It’s Possible! – Medscape (free registration required) AND High-value oncology practices include “support for the patient journey” – Stanford Medicine (free)

3 – Changing Health Care Compensation by Rewarding Value-Based Outcomes – NEJM Catalyst (free)

4 – Speed of processing training results in lower risk of dementia – Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions (free)

Commentaries: Can brain training reduce dementia risk? Despite new research, the jury is still out – The Guardian (free) AND Nonpharma Intervention Cuts Dementia Risk by a Third – Medscape (free registration required) AND Dementia breakthrough? Brain-training game ‘significantly reduces risk’ – Medical News Today (free)

“There are good reasons to be cautious about a new study claiming computer-based training can reduce the risk of dementia. But what does work?” (from The Guardian).

5 – Timing of Angiography and Outcomes in High-Risk Patients With Non–ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction Managed Invasively – Circulation (free)

“High risk NSTEMI undergoing cath within 12 hours had lower risk of death and MI at 180 days” (RT @CircAHA see Tweet)

6 – Why we should care that many editors of top medical journals get healthcare industry payments – Health News Reviews (free)

Original article: Payments by US pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to US medical journal editors: retrospective observational study – The BMJ (free)

7 – Review: Undernutrition and severe acute malnutrition in children – The BMJ (free)

Infographic: Screening and referring children under 5 years old with acute undernutrition (free PDF)

8 – Review: Diabetic foot – The BMJ (free)

Infographic: A visual overview of the primary care assessment and monitoring of a diabetic foot (free PDF)

9 – Review of Strategies to Reduce Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) in Adult ICUs – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free) (via @brhospitalist)

10 – Simple steps help prevent ICU delirium – ACP Hospitalist (free)