Evidence Alerts

Month’s Most Accessed: We thought you might enjoy reviewing the most interesting articles for the past month, based on the frequency with which subscribers viewed these in detail. The top 10 appear below.

Intensive Glucose Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes – 15-Year Follow-up.
N Engl J Med
Antidepressants plus benzodiazepines for adults with major depression.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
Estimates of all cause mortality and cause specific mortality associated with proton pump inhibitors among US veterans: cohort study.
BMJ
Tagged for: Gastroenterology
Risk of venous and arterial thrombosis in non-surgical patients receiving systemic tranexamic acid: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Thromb Res
Tagged for: Gastroenterology, Hospital Doctor/Hospitalists
Evaluating the impact of self-monitoring of blood glucose frequencies on glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes who do not use insulin: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Int J Clin Pract
XueBiJing Injection Versus Placebo for Critically Ill Patients With Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Crit Care Med
Tagged for: Hospital Doctor/Hospitalists
2018 AHA/ACC/AACVPR/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
J Am Coll Cardiol
Hypertonic Saline in Human Sepsis: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Anesth Analg
Tagged for: Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Evaluating Effectiveness of Nasal Compression With Tranexamic Acid Compared With Simple Nasal Compression and Merocel Packing: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Ann Emerg Med
Associations between gabapentinoids and suicidal behaviour, unintentional overdoses, injuries, road traffic incidents, and violent crime: population based cohort study in Sweden.
BMJ
Tagged for: Pediatrics (General)