Thu, September 6 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Ten Commandments of the 2018 ESC/ESH HTN Guidelines on Hypertension in Adults – European Heart Journal (free) (via @gonzaeperez)

2 – Rapid Recommendations: Prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test: a clinical practice guideline – The BMJ (free)

Related guidelines: American Cancer Society Guideline for the Early Detection of Prostate Cancer (free) AND PSA-Based Prostate Cancer Screening in Men Aged 55-69 – American Academy of Family Physicians (free) AND USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Screening for Prostate Cancer (free guideline, editorial and commentaries)

3 – Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Adult Patients With Cancer-Related Immunosuppression: ASCO and IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline Update – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)

See also: Guideline Update Summary (free)

4 – Baloxavir Marboxil for Uncomplicated Influenza in Adults and Adolescents – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Quick Take Video Summary: Baloxavir for Uncomplicated Influenza (free)

Commentary: New single-dose antiviral cuts flu symptoms, viral loads – CIDRAP (free)

5 – Perspective: “Precision” Public Health — Between Novelty and Hype – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

6 – Guidance: Writing Outpatient Clinic Letters to Patients – Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (free PDF)

Commentaries: Doctors told to ditch Latin and use ‘plain English’ – BBC News (free) AND New drive to encourage doctors to write to patients in plain English – The Guardian (free) AND Rx for British Doctors: Use Plain English Instead of Latin – The New York Times (free)

“Guidance suggests specialists should avoid Latin terms, acronyms and convoluted language” (from The Guardian)

7 – Subsegmental pulmonary embolism: anticoagulation or observation? – PulmCCM (free)

8 – Policy Statement: Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Influenza in Children, 2018–2019 – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

News Release: AAP Issues Flu Vaccine Recommendations for 2018-2019 (free)

9 – Diclofenac use and cardiovascular risks: series of nationwide cohort studies – The BMJ (free)

Commentary: Diclofenac Again Tied to Major Cardiovascular Events – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND ‘A major safety concern’: World’s most common NSAID doubles CVD risk – Cardiovascular Business (free)

10 – Machine learning models in electronic health records can outperform conventional survival models for predicting patient mortality in coronary artery disease – PLOS One (free)

Commentaries: AI beats doctors at predicting heart disease deaths – The Francis Crick Institute, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Novel AI algorithm beats cardiologists’ models in predicting heart disease mortality – Cardiovascular Business (free)