Journal Club 2017-2018 Year to Date Articles
June 27, 2017: Gill, Soleja
Effect of Home Noninvasive Ventilation With Oxygen Therapy vs Oxygen Therapy Alone on Hospital Readmission or Death After an Acute COPD Exacerbation A Randomized Clinical Trial (JG)
Bioresorbable Scaffolds versus Metallic Stents in Routine PCI (DS)
July 11, 2017: Baby, Hosein

Effect of Insulin Degludec vs Insulin Glargine U100 on Hypoglycemia in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes The SWITCH 1 Randomized Clinical Trial (JB)

Thyroid Hormone Therapy for Older Adults with Subclinical Hypothyroidism (RH)

July 25, 2017: Christensen, Roman

Oral Glucocorticoid–Sparing Effect of Benralizumab in Severe Asthma and Supplementary Appendix (EC)

Coffee Drinking and Mortality in 10 European Countries (JR)

August 1, 2017: Sundaresan, Sudhekar

Systemic Immunomodulating Therapies for Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (SS)

A Placebo-Controlled Trial of Antibiotics for Smaller Skin Abscesses (NS)

August 15, 2017: Ukoha, Philip

Effect of Alternate-Day Fasting on Weight Loss, Weight Maintenance, and Cardioprotection AmongMetabolically Healthy Obese Adults (UU)

Trial of Tocilizumab in Giant-Cell Arteritis (JP)

August 29, 2017: Trejo, Kasindi

Coated-platelets Predict Stroke at 30 Days following TIA (ET)

Doppler Endoscopic Probe Monitoring of Blood Flow Improves Risk Stratification and Outcomes of Patients with Severe Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (DK)

September 12, 2017: Kingsley, Nguyen
Bacterial clonal diagnostics as a tool for evidence-based empiric antibiotic selection (JK)
Brain Metastases in Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer A Population-Based Study (DN)
September 26, 2017: Reikher, Tumyan
Effect of Oral Dexamethasone Without Immediate Antibiotics vs. Placebo on Acute Sore Throat in Adults (DR)
Thyroid Hormone Therapy for Older Adults with Subclinical Hypothyroidism (GT)
October 10, 2017: Assaf, Kaila

Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease (AA)

Effect of Routine Low-Dose Oxygen Supplementation on Death and Disability in Adults With Acute Stroke The Stroke Oxygen Study Randomized Clinical Trial (VK)
October 24, 2017: Ausama, Serrano

Romosozumab or Alendronate for Fracture Prevention in Women with Osteoporosis (LA)

Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study (DS)
November 28, 2017: Gupta, Sundaresan

Oxygen Therapy in Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction (NG)

Noninvasive Testing for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Hepatic Fibrosis in Patients With Psoriasis Receiving Long-term Methotrexate Sodium Therapy (SS)

December 12, 2017: Gill, Baby

Mepolizumab for Eosinophilic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (JG)

Fremanezumab for the Preventive Treatment of Chronic Migraine (JB)

January 2, 2018: Assaf, Harada

PCI Strategies in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock (AA)

Effects of Sotagliflozin Added to Insulin in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes (MH)

January 16, 2018: Jones, Yohannan

Effects of Once-Weekly Exenatide on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes (BJ)

Letermovir Prophylaxis for Cytomegalovirus in Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation (BY)

January 30, 2018: Kingsley, Philip

Diagnostic Assessment of Deep Learning Algorithms for Detection of Lymph Node Metastases in Women with Breast Cancer (JK)

A Controlled Trial of Erenumab for Episodic Migraine (JP)

February 6, 2018: Kasindi, Reikher

Hemophilia B Gene Therapy with a High-Specific-Activity Factor IX Variant (DK)

Low Accuracy of Positive qSOFA Criteria for Predicting 28-Day Mortality in Critically Ill Septic Patients During the Early Period After Emergency Department Presentation (DR)

February 20, 2018: Serrano, Nguyen

Risk of Acute Kidney Injury After Intravenous Contrast Media Administration (DS)

Catheter Abliation for Atrial Fibrillation with Heart Failure (DN)

March 6, 2018: Tumyan, Sudhekar

Teprotumumab for Thyroid-Associated Ophthalmopathy (GT)

Effect of Meropenem-Vaborbactam vs Piperacillin-Tazobactam on Clinical Cure or Improvement and Microbial Eradication in Complicated Urinary Tract InfectionThe TANGO I Randomized Clinical Trial (NS)

March 20, 2018: Yohannan, Kaila

Hydrocortisone Plus Fludricortisone for Adults with Septic Shock (BY)

Thrombectomy for Stroke at 6 to 16 Hours with Selection by Perfusion Imaging (VK)

April 3, 2018: Jones, Harada
Cardiovascular Safety of Febuxostat or Allopurinol in Patients with Gout (BJ)
Mechanical or Biologic Prostheses for Aortic-Valve and Mitral-Valve Replacement (MH)
April 17, 2018: Christensen, Ukoha

Effect of Opioid vs Nonopioid Medications on Pain-Related Function in Patients With Chronic Back Pain or Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis Pain The SPACE Randomized Clinical Trial (EC)

Chemoprevention of Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma With a Single Course of Fluorouracil, 5%, Cream A Randomized Clinical Trial (UU)

May 1, 2018: Ausama, Roman
Daratumumab plus Bortezomib, Melphalan, and Prednisone for Untreated Myeloma (LA)

A Comparison of Laboratory Testing in Teaching vs Nonteaching Hospitals for 2 Common Medical Conditions (JR)

May 15, 2018: Trejo, Gupta

Balanced Crystalloids versus Saline in Critically Ill Adults (ET)

Effect of Glyburide vs Subcutaneous Insulin on Perinatal Complications Among Women With Gestational Diabetes A Randomized Clinical Trial (NG)