EE+ POEM Archive
- No benefit to remdesivir, HCQ, lopinavir, or interferon in large WHO trial of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 (Solidarity)
- Combination of baricitinib and remdesivir reduces recovery time in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia
- Approximately 1 in 6 household and family contacts become infected with SARS-CoV-2
- USPSTF 2020 recommends screening for hepatitis B virus infection in at-risk adolescents and adults (B recommendation)
- Decreased risk of mechanical ventilation with tocilizumab for treatment of moderate to severe COVID-19 pneumonia
- Subcutaneous hydration is safer than intravenous hydration for elderly patients
- Typical outpatient systolic BP measurements are higher than those taken using research protocols and they vary widely
- Lipid lowering is beneficial for secondary prevention but not primary prevention in patients 75 years and older
- The use of tranexamic acid in upper gatrointestinal bleeding is ineffective and may be harmful
- Eating eggs is not associated with cardiovascular disease
- Scores based on bedside clinical findings are helpful in identifying pneumonia in febrile children
- PREDICT Prostate online risk score accurately predicts the prognosis for men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer
- Continuous glucose monitoring adds little benefit, especially in adults
- Low-volume same-day colonoscopy preparation is as effective as split-dose high-volume or low-volume preparations
- Low-dose digoxin and bisoprolol are equally beneficial for rate control/QOL in patients with CHF and permanent AF (RATE-AF)
- New "-flozin" type 2 diabetes treatments improve outcomes in patients with heart failure, with or without diabetes
- Framingham Risk Score and Pooled Cohort Equations both overestimate cardiovascular event risk
- Positive CA125 test results for "symptomatic" women are wrong most of the time
- Sore throat and rhinitis are predictive of a recurrent positive test result for COVID-19
- For stroke patients with unknown time of symptom onset, intravenous alteplase decreases disability but increases mortality