Table of contents

Therapeutics/Prevention

• Systematic review with meta analysis: Restrictive red blood cell transfusion strategies appear safe in most clinical settings (28 July, 2015)

  Nareg H Roubinian, Jeffrey L Carson
• Randomised controlled trial: α-channel and calcium-channel blockers are ineffective as medical expulsive therapy for ureteral stones regardless of size and location (3 August, 2015)

  Andrew Worster
• Systematic review: Personalised chronic care planning shows limited but promising effects on physical and psychological health and self-management capabilities (28 July, 2015)

  Ellen I Schafheutle
• Systematic review with meta analysis: In knee osteoarthritis, pharmacological interventions, with the exception of acetaminophen, significantly improve pain; with intra-articular administration being more effective (3 August, 2015)

  Bryan M Saltzman, Kirk A Campbell
• Randomised controlled trial: An IVC filter and anticoagulation for 3 months is unlikely to show a benefit over anticoagulation alone for high-risk patients with acute pulmonary embolism (29 July, 2015)

  Eric K Hoffer
• Randomised controlled trial: In patients with persistent atrial fibrillation complex ablation techniques were no better than pulmonary vein isolation alone in preventing recurrent atrial fibrillation (12 August, 2015)

  Martin Manninger, Daniel Scherr
• Randomised controlled trial: Ezetimibe provides incremental reduction in risk for cardiovascular events and need for revascularisation following an acute coronary syndrome (10 August, 2015)

  Peter P Toth
• Randomised controlled trial: A supplementation of DHA and AA to human milk-fed VLBW infants has no significant cognitive improvement or measurable neuroanatomical effects when evaluated at 8 years of age (17 August, 2015)

  Ryszard Lauterbach
• Systematic review and meta-analysis: Antivirals in combination with corticosteroids compared to corticosteroids alone improve facial recovery in severe Bell's palsy… and possibly more? (20 August, 2015)

  John R de Almeida
• Randomised controlled trial: The RTS,S/AS01 vaccine continues to show modest protection against malaria in African infants and children (27 August, 2015)

  Philip J Rosenthal
• Systematic review with meta analysis: Directly observed treatment is not the only solution for poor adherence and low cure of tuberculosis (20 August, 2015)

  Surendra K Sharma, Saket Jha
• Systematic review with meta analysis: Percutaneous vertebroplasty does not reduce pain and disability from osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (31 August, 2015)

  Bronek Boszczyk
• Randomised controlled trial: Short-course antimicrobial therapy may be clinically similar to a longer course for complicated intra-abdominal infections (20 August, 2015)

  Tanya L Zakrison
• Systematic review with meta-analysis: Blood pressure lowering in patients with type 2 diabetes improves cardiovascular events including mortality, but more intensive lowering to systolic blood pressure less than 130 mm Hg is associated with further reduction in stroke and albuminuria without further reduction in cardiac events (23 July, 2015)

  Bora Toklu, Sripal Bangalore
• Randomised controlled trial: Immediate delivery in women with non-severe hypertensive disorders at 34–37 weeks’ gestation does not reduce maternal complications, and increases neonatal risks more than under expectant management (11 August, 2015)

  Shakila Thangaratinam
• Randomised controlled trial: Perioperative use of chewing gum affects the inflammatory response and reduces postoperative ileus following major colorectal surgery (31 August, 2015)

  Bruce U Su'a, Andrew G Hill