Tue, September 11 – 10 Stories of The Day!

World #SuicidePrevention Day Highlights (10 September 2018)

1 – Preventing suicide A community engagement toolkit – World Health Organization (free PDF)

Fact Sheet: Suicide – World Health Organization (free)

2 – Guideline: Preventing suicide in community and custodial settings – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

3 – Chronic Pain Among Suicide Decedents, 2003 to 2014: Findings From the National Violent Death Reporting System – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

Editorial: Pain, Opioids, and Suicide Mortality in the United States (free)

Commentaries: Chronic pain may contribute to suicide, study warns – Reuters (free) AND Chronic Pain Tied to Increased Suicide Risk – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Increasing rates of chronic pain found among those who die by suicide – ACP Internist (free)

4 – It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things. That’s Costly for All of Us – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) (via @CaulfieldTim)

5 – State of The Art Review: Perioperative lung protective ventilation – The BMJ (free for a limited period)

6 – Podcast: #113 Gout: Uric acid targets, urate lowering therapy, and random questions from social media – The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast (free)

7 – Lifestyle changes reduce the need for blood pressure medications – American Heart Association Meeting Report (free)

Commentary: Lifestyle Interventions Cut Need for Antihypertensives Within Months – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)

8 – Pharmacist services for non‐hospitalised patients – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Can services delivered by pharmacists improve patient health? – Cochrane Library (free)

Commentaries: Pharmacists play vital role in improving patient health shows biggest review of evidence to date – University of Bath (free) AND Community pharmacy can significantly improve care in long-term conditions, large-scale analysis finds – The Pharmaceutical Journal (free)

9 – Effectiveness of a Therapeutic Tai Ji QuanIntervention vs a Multimodal Exercise Intervention to Prevent Falls Among Older Adults at High Risk of Falling: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Tai Chi May Work Best to Prevent Falls in Old Age – WebMD (free) AND Tai Ji Quan Can Reduce Falls in Elderly – MedicalResearch.com (free)

10 – Preventing Cognitive Decline in Black Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Study provides evidence to prevent memory decline in older blacks with mild cognitive impairment – News Medical (free) AND Novel Intervention Markedly Slows Cognitive Decline in MCI – Medscape (free registration required)