Wed November 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – 2019 AHA/ACC Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults with High Blood Pressure – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free)

Commentaries: New Performance and Quality Measures For High BP Released – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Heart Groups Publish New Performance, Quality Measures for BP Management – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

Related AHA/ACC Guideline and Summaries: 2017 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults (free) AND Executive Summary (free) AND Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: Synopsis of the 2017 ACC/AHA Hypertension Guideline – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

2 – Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Headache – Annals of Emergency Medicine (free)

3 – Consensus Statement on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth Sports Using a Modified Delphi Approach – JAMA Pediatrics (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Evidence Lacking on Ways to Prevent Youth Sports Concussion – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

4 – Initial Imaging-Guided Strategy Versus Routine Care in Patients with Non–ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Upfront Imaging Reduces Invasive Angiography in Patients With Unclear NSTEMI Diagnosis – TCTMD (free) AND Imaging-Guided Strategy vs. Routine Care for NSTEMI Patients – American College of Cardiology (free)

5 – STI update: Testing, treatment, and emerging threats – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)

6 – Appropriate laboratory testing in Lyme disease – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)

7 – Artificial Intelligence examining ECGs predicts irregular heartbeat, death risk – American Heart Association Scientific Sessions (free)

Related Study: Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Can Detect Patients with Atrial Fibrillation from a Sinus Rhythm ECG (link to abstract and commentaries)

8 – How to Read Articles That Use Machine Learning: Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Evaluating Machine Learning Articles (free)

9 – Drugs for Atrial Fibrillation – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Podcast: Review of Atrial Fibrillation Treatment – JAMA (free audio)

Original Guideline: 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (free)

10 – Otology/Neurotology recommendations – Choosing Wisely campaign – Journal of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery (free)

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