EE+ POEM Archive
- Wait-and-watch is an option for patients with symptomatic but uncomplicated gallstones
- Walking and holding, followed by sitting and holding, best for helping crying infants get to sleep
- Walking program effective for chronic low back pain
- Walking program increases activity in elders but does not prevent falls (Easy Steps)
- Waning immunity to symptomatic infection with Delta variant, but not to hospitalization or death, 20 weeks after vaccination
- Warfarin: damned if you do, damned if you don't
- Warfarin > aspirin in preventing strokes in pts older than 75 with A fib (BAFTA)
- Warfarin can safely be held for the short term
- Warfarin doesn't prevent catheter-associated clots in cancer patients (WARP)
- Warfarin prevents more strokes than clopidorel+ASA in a fib (ACTIVE)
- Warfarin provides greater net benefit than rivaroxaban for patients with atrial fibrillation and rheumatic heart disease
- Warfarin superior to antiplatelet treatment for A Fib
- Warm packs beneficial in labor
- Watch-and-wait strategy is an option for primary spontaneous pneumothorax
- Watch-and-wait strategy may be appropriate for candy lodged in the nose of children
- Watching an injection increases the pain
- Watching reality television beauty shows may increase risk of harmful skin cancer
- Water, medical treatments recommened to prevent kidney stones
- Water-based exercise therapy is better than standard physical therapy for adults with chronic low back pain
- Water exposure at 6 hours after cutaneous surgery does not increase the risk of complications
- Weak correlation between umbilical cord blood gas values and neonatal outcomes
- Weak evidence supports augmentation therapy for treatment-resistant depression
- Weak evidence that optimal neonatal outcomes are associated with delivery at 39 weeks for pregnant individuals with mild chronic hypertension
- Wearable technology (eg, Fitbit) combined with lifestyle intervention = LESS weight loss
- Weekly dulaglutide lowers glycated hemoglobin in young people with T2DM; no data on clinical outcomes
- Weekly rifapentine + isoniazid for 3 months = daily isoniazid for 9 months for latent TB
- Weekly tirzepatide + metformin better than daily insulin degludec + metformin in decreasing A1C, weight, and hypoglycemia (SURPASS-3)
- Weight loss coaches effective by phone or in person
- Weight reduction improves mild sleep apnea
- Wells score not helpful in hospitalized patients with suspected DVT
- Wells score plus age-adjusted d-dimer rules out more PEs
- We should use a much higher leukocyte cutoff to diagnose UTI in older women
- When every drop counts: tapping beer cans does not lessen the volume lost upon opening
- Whether a viral or bacterial pathogen is detected has little effect on cough symptoms or duration
- Whether warfarin is taken in the morning or the evening makes no meaningful difference in time in therapeutic range
- White cells do not equate to bacterial cells in the urine of hospitalized patients
- Whole blood clotting test can predict need for antivenin in underresourced settings
- Why families who resist vaccines should not be banned from medical practices
- Wide variation in clinical presentation of erythema migrans
- Wiping of nose and mouth at birth equivalent to suction
- Withholding platelet transfusion from thrombocytopenic patients with central venous catheters = more bleeding events
- Women more likely to use EC with advance provision
- Women prefer self-completed approaches for intimate partner violence screening
- Women treated for AAA fare worse than men
- Women who use levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine devices are less likely to develop ischemic stroke than nonusers of hormonal contraception
- Women with endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia have a lower complete response rate but more pregnancies with oral progestins vs levonorgestrel-releasing IUDs
- Women with ER+/HER-/node- breast cancer and intermediate Oncotype score do not benefit from chemo (TAILORx)
- Women with normal Pap smears in their 50s unlikely to develop cervical cancer as they age
- WONCA/Dartmouth COOP charts are useful for mental disorder screening
- Workplace back pain prevention program ineffective
- Workplace wellness program did not improve clinical measures of health nor reduce health care spending and utilization
- Work stress has no meaningful effect on BP
- Worrisome mole? There's an app for that!
- Wound eversion may not be necessary to minimize scarring
- Wrist splint and forearm strap brace equally effective for lateral epicondylitis
- Wrong blood pressure cuff size can falsely increase or decrease readings