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Journal Club for the Medicine Trainee

Biologic · 2014-12-12 05:41:59

Hi all, I'll be the first to admit that I find it difficult to read journal articles with any degree of enthusiasm. Every few weeks though, I've found an article I wish I'd been told about long ago. With that in mind, I thought I'd start a thread where people can post articles that they wished they'd known about sooner, or…

12-12-2014 5:41am

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Biologic

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Hi all,

I'll be the first to admit that I find it difficult to read journal articles with any degree of enthusiasm. Every few weeks though, I've found an article I wish I'd been told about long ago. With that in mind, I thought I'd start a thread where people can post articles that they wished they'd known about sooner, or which had a particular impact on their week-to-week work life.
These are such articles this week for me:
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1904827
All the options for anticoagulation with comparative evidence in one document. TL;DR- Apixiban wins

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24718923
It's flu season, and the vaccine this year isn't all that. If you thing you're being a lifesaver by diving on someone with oseltamivir, you're probably not. TL;DR- Properly prescribed and taken oseltamivir reduces flu duration for 7 days to 6.3 days, with increased rates of nausea, vomiting, psychiatric effects and renal events.

Feel free to post any articles you found useful, or argue against the conclusions of previously post articles. Remember though, use evidence or feck off to the conspiracy theory forum.

Bio

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