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Evidence eMended: May Day in Evidence-Land Commentary from AAP Grand Rounds Consulting Editor Bud Wiedermann - Pediatric Evidence Based Medicine
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Friday, May 1, 2015. May Day in Evidence-Land. Evidence." Sadly, it has a nice example of the "needs additional citations" comment. Still, I was interested to learn that the concept started in ancient Rome and that, among other features, it was commonly celebrated at women's colleges and other academic institutions about a hundred years ago. And links between surgical volume and costs/outcomes for complicated cardiac surgery. Posted by Bud Wiedermann. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Read AAP Grand Ro...
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Evidence eMended: Pelvic Fractures: Know Your Test Limitations Commentary from AAP Grand Rounds Consulting Editor Bud Wiedermann - Pediatric Evidence Based Medicine
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Pelvic Fractures: Know Your Test Limitations. This study, one of the many gushing from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), gives us a chance to review issues with prospective observational studies as well as what makes a good screening test. Kwok MY, Yen K, Atabaki S, et al. Sensitivity of plain pelvis radiography in children with blunt torso trauma. Ann Emerg Med. 2015;63(1):63-71. Illustration of direction of traumatic force (arrows). I suspect most ...
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Evidence eMended: Strict Rest After Concussion: Is This Study a Game Changer? Commentary from AAP Grand Rounds Consulting Editor Bud Wiedermann - Pediatric Evidence Based Medicine
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Strict Rest After Concussion: Is This Study a Game Changer? Thomas DG, Apps JN, Hoffmann RG, et al. Benefits of strict rest after acute concussion: a randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2015;135(2):213-223. Doi:10.1542/peds.2014-0966. See AAP Grand Rounds commentary by Dr. Cynthia LaBella. Short answer: back to the drawing board. Still, most of us, including these researchers, want to see long-term follow up results before being convinced that strict rest truly is not the ma...
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Evidence eMended: What Do Pertussis Vaccination and the Masters Golf Tournament Have in Common? Commentary from AAP Grand Rounds Consulting Editor Bud Wiedermann - Pediatric Evidence Based Medicine
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015. What Do Pertussis Vaccination and the Masters Golf Tournament Have in Common? Well, actually not much, unless a child with pertussis is in the gallery and has onset of a paroxysmal coughing spell during tournament favorite Rory McIlroy's backswing. The odds of that happening, even in an era of pertussis resurgence in the United States, are pretty low, but it's an excuse to discuss what to do with odds and odds ratios in medical research. Explains more of the arithmetic of odds rat...
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First Read: Where the Streets Have No Names: Suicide In Teens Living on the Streets of Vancouver
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Where the Streets Have No Names: Suicide In Teens Living on the Streets of Vancouver. Joann Schulte DO, M PH. She called herself Homey Girl in the emergency room. Homey Girl's suicide attempt is hardly an isolated case. Suicide is the cause of death in 20% of youth aged 15-24 years in the US and the numbers are even higher among adolescents and young adults living on the street. Similar figures have been published for Canada. A new study published this month in Pediatrics.
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First Read: Mycoplasma pneumonia and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Combination and Complication You Should Know About
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Mycoplasma pneumonia and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Combination and Complication You Should Know About. Lewis First, MD, MS; Editor-in-Chief. While we are all familiar with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) as a somewhat uncommon dermatologic illness in our patients in which the epidermis separates from the dermis due to cell death, we may be less familiar with outbreaks of this disorder and their etiology. This week, Olson et al. ( doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-0278. Donald E. Lighter.
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Evidence eMended: About Evidence eMended Commentary from AAP Grand Rounds Consulting Editor Bud Wiedermann - Pediatric Evidence Based Medicine
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Evidence eMended, a resource in pediatric evidence-based medicine, provides an expanded commentary on articles reviewed in the American Academy of Pediatrics publication, AAP Grand Rounds. Each month, Evidence eMended will link to the Table of Contents for that month's issue of AAP Grand Rounds. Four articles will be featured in commentary each month, posted on Tuesdays. For months with five Tuesdays, check out the special "Fifth Tuesday" commentary . Comments that attack individuals or organizations.
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Evidence eMended: Playing the CONSORT Game: Issues with Randomization and Bias in Clinical Trials Commentary from AAP Grand Rounds Consulting Editor Bud Wiedermann - Pediatric Evidence Based Medicine
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Playing the CONSORT Game: Issues with Randomization and Bias in Clinical Trials. I used this article as an example several weeks ago for a discussion with pediatric residents and medical students on interpreting clinical studies of treatments. It had just the right amount of concerns - not too flagrant, but enough to give caution in using the results. Maybe next time the authors will pay more attention to CONSORT. These researchers performed a randomized, placebo-controlled, double ...
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