Wed, December 12 – 10 Stories of The Day!
12 Dec, 2018 | 00:46h | UTC
1 – The 2018 Altmetric Top 100 Articles (free)
“In the past year, Altmetric has tracked over 25 million mentions of 2.8 million research outputs. This page highlights the top 100 most-mentioned scholarly articles published in the past year – those which have truly captured the public imagination.”
2 – Guideline: Infection prevention in the operating room anesthesia work area – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (free)
Commentary: New guidance focuses on reducing infections in anesthesiology – Healio (free registration required)
3 – Liberal versus conservative fluid therapy in adults and children with sepsis or septic shock – Cochrane Library (free)
Summary: Different fluid therapy strategies for sepsis and septic shock – Cochrane Library (free)
4 – Viewpoint: Questions for Artificial Intelligence in Health Care – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Related: Humanizing Artificial Intelligence – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Disentangling ourselves from “Big Formula” – The BMJ (free) AND Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaring – The Conversation (free)
6 – Special Issue: Comorbidities, Deprescribing, and the Healthcare of Older People – Public Policy & Aging Report (free articles)
Commentary: Deprescribing can be valuable tool in managing polypharmacy, experts say – The Gerontological Society of America (free)
Related: Deprescribing: the fightback against polypharmacy has begun – The Pharmaceutical Journal (free) AND Reducing Inappropriate Medication Use & Polypharmacy (several articles and commentaries on the subject)
Commentary: Dietary Supplements Don’t Prevent Chronic Disease – Medscape (free registration required)
“The routine and indiscriminate use of micronutrient supplements for the prevention of chronic disease is not recommended”
8 – Stool test is useful before GPs refer for possible inflammatory bowel disease – NIHR Signal (free)
Original Article: Faecal calprotectin effectively excludes inflammatory bowel disease in 789 symptomatic young adults with/without alarm symptoms: a prospective UK primary care cohort study – Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics (free)
9 – COP24 special report: health and climate change – World Health Organization (free PDF)
Commentaries: Health benefits far outweigh the costs of meeting climate change goals – World Health Organization (free) AND Save millions of lives by tackling climate change, says WHO – World Health Organization (free) AND Tackling climate change could save millions of lives, report says – CNN (free)
10 – Global status report on road safety 2018 – World Health Organization (free)
Commentaries: Road injuries leading cause of death for the young, despite safety gains: UN report – UN News (free) AND Measurement is not enough for global road safety: implementation is key – The Lancet Public Health (free)