EE+ POEM Archive
- Increased water intake decreases UTI recurrence in women
- Aspirin's benefits and harms are less clear for primary prevention in moderate-risk patients (ARRIVE)
- Short-term outcomes for new-onset mild carpal tunnel syndrome better with steroid injection than splints
- Adding CCTA to chest pain assessment reduces likelihood of nonfatal MI (SCOT-HEART)
- Limited data: deprescribing is safe, but at the risk of symptom recurrence
- Aspirin alone may be sufficient protection from postop VTE after total knee arthroplasty
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation = sham TMS for motor recovery after stroke (NICHE)
- Hospital at home provides equivalent results at lower cost for mild COPD exacerbations
- Failure to wear a helmet while motorcycling is bad for your head
- Subacute cough treatments: limited data, unclear benefits
- No reduction in delirium with the use of haloperidol or ziprasidone in critically ill patients
- Select adult patients can be safely discharged directly home from an ICU
- USPSTF 2018 recommends intimate partner violence screening in women of reproductive age (B recommendation)
- ATS guideline for managing patients with malignant pleural effusion
- Low-dose theophylline is minimally helpful, if at all, in preventing COPD exacerbations
- Clinical factors modestly accurate in predicting poor outcomes in older patients with dizziness (RODEO)
- Amitriptyline ineffective for chronic back pain
- Effective systemic treatments for pyoderma gangrenosum
- Two bedside tests are fairly accurate in screening for delirium in older patients