50 studies every doctor should know

http://50studies.com/table-of-contents/

author, Dr. Michael Hochman, is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar in the division of general internal medicine and health services research, department of medicine, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Section 1: Preventive Medicine

• Preventing Diabetes: The Diabetes Prevention Program
• A Comparison of Different Dieting Strategies
• Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: The Physicians’ Health Study and the Women’s Health Study
• Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy: The Women’s Health Initiative
• The European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC)
• The Cochrane Review of Screening Mammography
• The Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: The Future II Trial

Section 2: Internal Medicine

• Arrhythmia Suppression Following Myocardial Infarction:The CAST Trial
• Choosing First-Line Therapy for Hypertension: The ALLHAT Trial
• Statins in Healthy Patients with an Elevated C-Reactive Protein: The JUPITER Trial
• Rate vs. Rhythm Control for Atrial Fibrillation: The AFFIRM Trial
• Lenient vs. Strict Heart Rate Control for Atrial Fibrillation: The RACE II Trial
• Beta-Blockers for Systolic Heart Failure: The MERIT-HF Trial
• Initial Treatment of Stable Coronary Artery Disease: The COURAGE Trial
• Treating Elevated Blood Sugar Levels in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: The United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS)
• Intensive vs. Conservative Blood Sugar Control for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: The ACCORD Trial
• The African American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT)
• Early vs. Delayed Antiretroviral Therapy for Patients with HIV: The NA-ACCORD Study
• Early vs. Late Initiation of Dialysis: The IDEAL Trial
• Early Goal-Directed Therapy in Sepsis
• Red Cell Transfusion in Critically Ill Patients: The TRICC Trial
• Pulmonary Artery Catheters in Critically Ill Patients
• Step-Up vs. Step-Down Therapy for Dyspepsia: The DIAMOND Trial
• Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain

 Section 3: Surgery

• Perioperative Beta-Blockers in Non-Cardiac Surgery: The POISE Trial
• Cardiac Stents vs. Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery for Severe Coronary Artery Disease: The SYNTAX Trial
• Carotid Endarterectomy for Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis: The ACST Trial
• A Trial of Arthroscopic Knee Surgery
• Surgery vs. Rehabilitation for Chronic Low Back Pain: The MRC Spine Stabilization Trial
• Mastectomy vs. Lumpectomy for Invasive Breast Cancer: The B-06 Trial
• Long Term Impact of Bariatric Surgery: The Swedish Obese Subjects Study

 Section 4: Obstetrics

• The Canadian Multicenter Post-term Pregnancy Trial (CMPPT)
• Antepartum Glucocorticoids in Premature Labor

 Section 5: Pediatrics

• Treatment of Acute Otitis Media in Children
• A Trial of Early Ear Tube Placement in Children
• Inhaled Corticosteroids for Mild Persistent Asthma: The START Trial
• The Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA)
• Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism 

Section 6: Radiology

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Low Back Pain
• Screening for Coronary Artery Disease in Asymptomatic Patients with Diabetes: The DIAD Study
• Diagnosing Acute Pulmonary Embolism: The Christopher Study
• Identifying Children with Low-Risk Head Injuries Who Do Not Require Computed Tomography

 Section 7: Neurology and Psychiatry

• Thrombolysis 3 to 4.5 Hours After an Acute Ischemic Stroke: The ECASS III Trial
• Initial Treatment of Depression
• Behavioral vs. Pharmacological Treatment for Insomnia in the Elderly

Section 8: Systems Based Practice

• The Group Health Medical Home Demonstration
• A Program to Improve Care Coordination at Hospital Discharge: Project RED
• Reducing Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infections in the Intensive Care Unit: The Keystone ICU Project
• Early Palliative Care in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
• Directly Observed Therapy for the Treatment of Tuberculosis in Baltimore

 

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SUMSearch 2 is a meta-search tool that has recently been moved to a new domain location and changed its name slightly. The original search engine was developed at the University of Texas Health Center and designed to retrieve articles from a number of authoritative evidence-based information sources. However, SUMSearch 2 is housed at the University of Kansas School of Medicine & Medical Center. It employs a number of novel techniques to collate medical evidence from a variety of information sources.

HIGHLIGHTS

SUMSearch 2 simultaneously searches for original studies, systematic reviews and practice guidelines from multiple sources and displays them accordingly. According to its website, on the fly searches for reviews via SUMSearch are revised up to as many as six (6) times while searches for guidelines and systematic reviews are revised once each. This form of searching is called contingency or backup searching and is one of the main reason why response times are never quite what one expects in SUMSearch . In any case, search results are culled from PubMed, DARE and NGC and then merged and sorted. As SUMSearch executes live searches of external websites in response to queries, it alleges that it is “…always up-to-date.”

Upon entering your search terms, SUMSearch 2 will search the following resources:

• PubMed MEDLINE for original studies; systematic reviews and guidelines
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)
• National Guideline Clearinghouse Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)

Depending of the search focus, SUMSearch will search PubMed with the highest sensitivity filters developed by Haynes et al.

Major changes since SUMSearch 1.0

1. SUMSearch 2 is a more robust product in displaying results (but it still could be faster)
2. Guidelines from PubMed and the National Guidelines Clearinghouse are merged into one list, and sorted by year of publication
3. Systematic reviews from DARE and PubMed are merged into one list and sorted by year of publication
4. The homepage now points to the Image Challenge, recent essays in JAMA and Annals, Physician’s First Watch and ClinDx and medical news headlines from Feedburner
5. Widgets for these new features are also included in SUMSearch 2
6. Results screen has this message: “Consider performing your search at TRIP. Trip curates the articles it indexes so you may get a smaller number of more helpful documents.”

Comments about interface & content

• At the SUMSearch search screen, enter your terms; check for MeSH equivalent (a new window will open)
• SumSearch searches sources in logical order, and returns three main categories
• SumSearch queries sites that contain evidence written by qualified health professionals from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), DARE, and the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC). All three are government-sponsored and have limited biases due to no conflicts of interest; journals, systematic reviews, and practice guidelines in SumSearch are validated by NLM, DARE and NGC websites
• SumSearch uses validated search filters developed by various researchers to optimally search for articles; it’s a useful tool in aggregating medical evidence but should not be used as a replacement for literature reviews in native databases; however, SumSearch suffers from low visibility on the web compared to Google, Yahoo and Bing, and even the TRIP Database

The question of why physicians would use SUMSearch 2.0 over PubMed has not been satisfactorily answered.

References

 

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