Tue, July 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Systematic Review: Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care – Cochrane Library (free)

“This updated Cochrane Review indicates that nurses can effectively expand the capacity of the primary care workforce”.

2 – Comparison of Antibiotic Prescribing in Retail Clinics, Urgent Care Centers, Emergency Departments, and Traditional Ambulatory Care Settings in the United States – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Overprescription in Urgent Care Clinics—The Fast and the Spurious – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period) AND Urgent care centers often prescribe unnecessary antibiotics – Reuters (free) AND Study spotlights inappropriate prescribing in urgent care – CIDRAP (free)

3 – Clinical Review: Novel therapies for diabetes mellitus in pregnancy – The BMJ (free for a limited period)

4 – 9 in 10 infants worldwide received vaccinations in 2017 – World Health Organization (free)

5 – Integrating Responses at the Intersection of Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Epidemics: Proceedings of a Workshop – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (free)

Commentaries: National Academies target opioid abuse and infectious disease consequences – Emory Health Sciences (free) AND Within opioid abuse epidemic, infectious disease epidemic emerges – Reuters (free)

6 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 16 July 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.

7 – Is your cellphone giving you cancer? A comprehensive guide to the messy, frustrating research – VOX (free)

8 – Risks of ovarian, breast, and corpus uteri cancer in women treated with assisted reproductive technology in Great Britain, 1991-2010: data linkage study including 2.2 million person years of observation – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: No association found between fertility treatment, some types of cancer – ACP Internist (free) AND Fertility treatment does not appear to raise serious cancer risk – OnMedica (free)

9 – Smartphone-based screening for visual impairment in Kenyan school children: a cluster randomised controlled trial – The Lancet Global Health (free)

Commentaries: Strengthening eye health evidence for children in low-income and middle-income countries (free) AND App screening boosts children’s eye health – Medical Health News (free)

10 – International Group for Reducing Inappropriate Medication Use & Polypharmacy (IGRIMUP): Position Statement and 10 Recommendations for Action – Drugs & Aging (free)

Related: Polypharmacy Guidance, Realistic Prescribing 3 rd Edition, 2018 – Scottish Government Polypharmacy Model of Care Group (free PDF) AND The Challenge of Polypharmacy: From Rhetoric to Reality – Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of General Practitioners Partnership (free PDF) AND Common ED Medication Errors: Polypharmacy – emDocs (free) AND Current and future perspectives on the management of polypharmacy – BMC Family Practice (free) AND The other big drug problem: Older people taking too many pills – The Whashington Post (free) AND Routine deprescribing of chronic medications to combat polypharmacy – Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety (free) AND Polypharmacy—an Upward Trend with Unpredictable Effects – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free) AND Clinical Consequences of Polypharmacy in Elderly – Expert Opinion on Drug Safety (free) AND Too Many Meds? America’s Love Affair With Prescription Medication – Consumer Reports (free) AND CaDeN Deprescribing Guidelines and Algorithms (free)