EE+ POEM Archive
- USPSTF 2023: Insufficient evidence to recommend screening for speech and language delay in children (I statement)
- Single IM dose of nirsevimab reduces likelihood of hospitalization due to RSV in average-risk infants during first year of life (HARMONIE)
- A 7-day course in cognitive behavioral therapy leads to implementation of skills and strategies in practice
- Monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer disease: A lack of clinically meaningful benefits, plus significant harms
- Physical therapy is not necessary for first traumatic shoulder dislocation (ARTISAN)
- Patient reminders combined with clinician audit and feedback increases human papillomavirus vaccine uptake
- Several options are available to relieve chronic pain from TMJ disorder
- For patients with subclinical intermittent atrial fibrillation, apixaban causes 1 stroke and 1 major bleed per 250 persons (ARTESIA)
- Canadian Thoracic Society guidelines for pharmacotherapy of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Exercise prevents falls in elderly residents of care facilities while they are enrolled in exercise programs
- Probiotics are as effective as antidepressants (which are not very effective)
- Reduced labor duration and pain with the guided use of a Swiss ball in active labor
- Scottish screening: 0 cases of invasive cervical cancer in women who received at least 1 dose of bivalent HPV vaccine at 12 or 13 years of age
- Antibiotics somewhat helpful for acute conjunctivitis (NNT = 8) but most patients get better without treatment
- A simple intervention nudges physicians to sit down at the patient’s bedside
- Antidepressants do not appear to increase the risk of manic episodes in children and adolescents with unipolar depression
- Sham TENS = active TENS for relief of abdominal pain in adults seeking care in emergency departments