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Pick of the Week: Chest pain, lung cancer screening and more!

Posted on January 31, 2016 by

Plenty of news were posted on the Among Doctors network over the past days. Some of the highlights of what our fellow colleagues shared include the clinical assessment of patients with chest pain and practical guidelines for the lung cancer screening. Let’s have a more in-depth look at this week’s top updates:

  • Clinical assessment of patients with chest pain: a systematic review of predictive tools
    The risk of coronary artery disease can be estimated on clinical grounds in patients with chest pain in different clinical settings with high accuracy. The estimation of probabilities of coronary artery disease could be used for a better management of patients with chest pain and also in the development of future predictive tools.
  • Lung cancer screening: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines
    The use of low-dose computed tomography presents an exciting development for high-risk individuals. Several expert bodies and governments have recently issued and updated their clinical practice guidelines for lung cancer screening. In this review the clinical practice guidelines are evaluated and the recommendations are compared between them.
  • Smoking associated with increased mortality in breast cancer patients
    In a prospective cohort study of over 4500 women with invasive breast cancer, patients who actively smoked prior to breast cancer diagnosis demonstrated a 25% increase in overall mortality compared to never smokers. Patients who continued to smoke post-breast cancer diagnosis demonstrated a significant increase in both cancer-specific and overall mortality. Patients who quit smoking after breast cancer diagnosis demonstrated a 9% risk reduction in overall mortality.
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Posted in Picks of the week breast cancer, CAD, chest pain, coronary artery disease, lung cancer, obesity, smoking, tobacco, WHO, Zika

Picks of the Week: Vaccines for HIV-positive adults and new guidelines!

Posted on January 24, 2016 by

Everyday all of us curate information, appraise much content and select what is relevant for our profession based on our interests. We are very delighted to see that the result of this information curation can be useful for other colleagues too; the sharing of appraised information is taking off on the Among Doctors network indeed! Many news were posted once again this week by our fellow colleagues and we have a selection of them below:

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Posted in Picks of the week diet, end of life, haemorrhage, HIV, quality of life, vaccination

Picks of the Week: Cancer screening, white coats and more!

Posted on January 11, 2016 by

Dear colleagues, first of all we’d like to wish you all a very happy new year!

In this blog, we continue picking up the top news updates from those that fellow colleagues have shared on the Among Doctors network. As many of you have already experienced, with this feature we can all become editors by selecting and sharing interesting news with the rest of our network. If you haven’t used it yet, give it try and let us know your thoughts.

Now, back to the latest top news:

  • Effects of cancer screening on overall mortality overstated, says report
    There is insufficient evidence to claim cancer screening saves lives, argue experts in a report published in The BMJ, who call for future studies to assess the impact of cancer screening on overall mortality rather than disease-specific mortality alone.
  • Effect of body surface decolonisation on bacteriuria and candiduria in intensive care units
    Universal decolonisation of patients in the ICU with once a day chlorhexidine baths and short-course nasal mupirocin could be a potential preventive strategy in male patients because it significantly decreases candiduria and any bacteriuria, but not for women.
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Posted in Picks of the week allergy, cancer, community-acquired pneumonia, Picks of the week

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