Thu, September 20 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Variation in Childhood Diarrheal Morbidity and Mortality in Africa, 2000–2015 – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

News Release: Discomfort or death? New study maps hot spots of child mortality from diarrhea across Africa – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (free)

Quick Take Video Summary: Variation in Childhood Diarrheal Morbidity and Mortality in Africa (free)

2 – Refractory septic shock: our pragmatic approach – Critical Care (free)

3 – Intensification of older adults’ outpatient blood pressure treatment at hospital discharge: national retrospective cohort study – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: Study: Hospitals may overprescribe blood pressure meds – UPI (free) AND Veterans overtreated for blood pressure on leaving hospital – MedicalXpress (free) AND Antihypertensive treatment intensified at discharge regardless of outpatient blood pressure history – ACP Hospitalist (free)

4 – Meta-analyses were supposed to end scientific debates. Often, they only cause more controversy – Science (free) (via @Onisillos)

5 – Oral Fluoroquinolone and the Risk of Aortic Dissection – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: The Fluoroquinolone/Aortic Dissection Association – Emergency Medicine Literature of Note (free)

Related observational studies with similar conclusions: Fluoroquinolone use and risk of aortic aneurysm and dissection (free articles)

6 – Deep learning for classifying fibrotic lung disease on high-resolution computed tomography: a case-cohort study – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Related Audio: Deep learning and fibrotic lung disease (free)

Commentary: Machine Tops Humans in Fibrotic Lung Disease Classification – Medical Health News (free)

7 – Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Followed by Surgery Versus Surgery Alone for Locally Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus (NEOCRTEC5010): A Phase III Multicenter, Randomized, Open-Label Clinical Trial – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)

Commentary: Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy in Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer – The ASCO Post (free)

Source: EvidenceAlerts

8 – Are noise and air pollution related to the incidence of dementia? A cohort study in London, England – BMJ Open (free)

Commentaries: Air pollution linked to dementia risk – NHS Choices (free) AND Expert reaction to air pollution and risk of dementia – Science Media Centre (free) AND Air pollution may be linked to heightened dementia risk – OnMedica (free) AND Is air pollution tied to higher dementia risk? – CNN (free)

9 – Nutritional quality of food as represented by the FSAm-NPS nutrient profiling system underlying the Nutri-Score label and cancer risk in Europe: Results from the EPIC prospective cohort study – PLOS Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at nutritional quality of food and risk of cancer – Science Media Centre (free) AND Foods with low nutritional quality tied to higher cancer risk – Medical News Today (free)

10 – Association of Medical Scribes in Primary Care With Physician Workflow and Patient Experience – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Use of Medical Scribes to Reduce Documentation Burden: Are They Where We Need to Go With Clinical Documentation? – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period) AND Scribes improve physician workflow, patient interaction – MedicalXpress (free) AND Scribes ease physician administrative burden and boost patient experience, JAMA study says – Healthcare Finance (free)