Wed, November 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!
7 Nov, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
News Release: New National Guidelines Seek to Improve Access to Palliative Care for People Living with Serious Illness (free)
Commentaries: Palliative care guidelines updated with increased focus on collaboration, communication – ACP Internist (free) AND New Palliative Care Guidelines Demand ‘Seismic Shift’ in Care – Medscape (free registration required)
Related: Summary of the international clinical guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired and ventilator-acquired pneumonia (free) AND International ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia (free) AND Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society (free)
3 – Reduced Salt Intake for Heart Failure: A Systematic Review – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Sodium Restriction in Heart Failure: Too Much Uncertainty—Do the Trials – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period) AND Review Questions Wisdom of Limiting Salt Intake in Heart Failure – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND Review: Low-Sodium Diet for HF on Shaky Ground – MedPage Today (free registration required)
4 – Perspective: A Profusion of Diagnoses. That’s Good and Bad – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“…we may also be medicalizing much of normal human behavior — labeling the healthy as diseased, and exposing them to undue risk of stigma, testing and treatment.”
Editorial: Long‐Term Survival Following Off‐Pump Coronary Surgery: Does Surgeon Experience Make a Difference? (free)
6 – Review: Lifestyle Modifications for Preventing and Treating Heart Failure – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free for a limited period)
7 – Review: Causes and prevention of postoperative myocardial injury – European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (free)
8 – Review: Update on Perioperative Acute Kidney Injury – Anesthesia & Analgesia (free)
Commentaries: Repeated Vaccination May Protect Children From Influenza Infection – JAMA Network Open (free) AND What Getting The Flu Vaccine Every Year Does To Your Immunity – Forbes (free) AND Study: Kids’ flu vaccine protection not reduced by prior vaccination – CIDRAP (free)
10 – Age at last screening and remaining lifetime risk of cervical cancer in older, unvaccinated, HPV-negative women: a modelling study – The Lancet Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Study finds there may be little benefit in screening women aged 55 with a negative HPV DNA test – The Lancet (free) AND New test could mean cervical cancer screening could stop sooner – OnMedica (free) AND At What Age Can We Stop Screening for Cervical Cancer? – NEJM Journal Watch (free)