Wed, November 14 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement – JAMA (free)

Editorials: Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol Use (free) AND Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care—The Elephant in the Examination Room (free)

Author Interview: USPSTF Recommendation: Screening and Interventions for Unhealthy Alcohol Use (free audio)

JAMA Patient Page: Screening and Counseling to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use (free)

2 – 2018 IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy – Clinical Infectious Diseases (free) (via @ABsteward)

Commentary: Updated Guidelines Advise on Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy – Pharmacy Times (free) AND ID specialist input improves outcomes for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy – Infectious Diseases Society of America (free)

3 – Effect of a Pharmacist-Led Educational Intervention on Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions in Older Adults: The D-PRESCRIBE Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free)

Video Summary: Effect of a Pharmacist-Led Intervention on Inappropriate Prescriptions in Older Adults (free)

4 – Effect of Exercise Intervention on Functional Decline in Very Elderly Patients During Acute Hospitalization: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: A Novel Exercise Intervention and Functional Status in Very Elderly Patients During Acute Hospitalization – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period) AND Exercise intervention benefits elderly in hospital – OnMedica (free)

Author Interview: Effect of Exercise Intervention on Functional Decline in Very Elderly Patients (free audio)

Videos: Morning Exercise Session (free) AND Evening Exercise Session (free) AND Balance and Gait Retraining Exercises (free)

5 – Top 8 Healthcare Predictions for 2019 – Forbes (free)

6 – Supraventricular Arrhythmias: Clinical Framework and Common Scenarios for the Internist – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free)

Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club

7 – Treatment and Prevention of Recurrent Lower Urinary Tract Infections in Women: A Rapid Review with Practice Recommendations – The Journal of Urology (free)

8 – Review: Advances in optimizing the prescription of antibiotics in outpatient settings – The BMJ (free for a limited period)

9 – Clinical Report: Sport-Related Concussion in Children and Adolescents – Pediatrics (free)

Commentaries: Concussion management embraces earlier light exercise, earlier return to school – AAP News Release (free) AND Pediatrics Group Updates Guidance on Sports-Related Concussion – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

10 – Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free)

Commentaries: Public health burden of antimicrobial resistance in Europe – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free) AND 33,000 people die every year due to infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria – European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (free) AND European study: 33,000 deaths a year from resistant infections – CIDRAP (free)