Fri, September 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Guideline: Pancreatitis – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

2 – Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: ASCO Clinical Practice Guideline Endorsement of an American Urological Association/American Society for Radiation Oncology/Society of Urologic Oncology Guideline – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)

3 – Statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular events and mortality in old and very old adults with and without type 2 diabetes: retrospective cohort study – The BMJ (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)

8 – Guidelines for the Evaluation and Treatment of Perimenopausal Depression: Summary and Recommendations – Journal of Women’s Health (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)

9 – A pilot study using telehealth to implement antimicrobial stewardship at two rural Veterans Affairs medical centers – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (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)

10 – Personalized Gut Mucosal Colonization Resistance to Empiric Probiotics Is Associated with Unique Host and Microbiome Features – Cell (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)