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Therapeutics/Prevention

• Randomised controlled trial: Similar prostate cancer and all-cause mortality in men with localised prostate cancer undergoing surgery or radiation therapy versus active monitoring at 10 years of follow-up (3 March, 2017)

  Philipp Dahm, Dragan Ilic, Timothy Wilt
• Cohort study: Team-based primary care with integrated mental health is associated with higher quality of care, lower usage and lower payments received by the delivery system (17 February, 2017)

  Aimee F English
• Randomised controlled trial: Early invasive strategy in patients with non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome delays death or MI by 18 months (29 March, 2017)

  Robert Henderson
• Prediction rule: A clinical risk score to predict the incidence of postpartum venous thromboembolism (4 April, 2017)

  Marc Blondon, Justine Hugon-Rodin
• Randomised controlled trial: Close contact casting may result in similar outcomes compared with plate fixation for unstable ankle fractures in patients over 60 years old (3 April, 2017)

  Alastair Younger
• Randomised controlled trial: Clinical failure is more common in young children with acute otitis media who receive a short course of antibiotics compared with standard duration (12 April, 2017)

  Roderick P Venekamp, Anne G M Schilder
• Randomised controlled trial: Abdominal electroacupuncture demonstrates an increase in complete spontaneous bowel movements (12 May, 2017)

  Deepti Jacob, Priya Vijayvargiya, Michael Camilleri
• Randomised controlled trial: Intensive blood pressure lowering provides no additional benefits and results in more adverse events (25 May, 2017)

  Else Charlotte Sandset, Urs Fischer
• Randomised controlled trial: High-intensity exercise offers no additional benefit to moderate-intensity exercise in reducing liver fat in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (3 June, 2017)

  Daniel J Cuthbertson, Victoria S Sprung
• Randomised controlled trial: Possible protective effect of prenatal omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids supplementation on persistent wheeze and asthma in early childhood (12 May, 2017)

  Karen Best, Maria Makrides
• Cohort study: Oral antibiotics are as effective as intravenous antibiotics for postdischarge treatment of complicated pneumonia in children (12 May, 2017)

  Igho Onakpoya
• Randomised controlled trial: Conduct and reporting of a vertebroplasty trial warrants critical examination (29 March, 2017)

  Rachelle Buchbinder, David F Kallmes, Jeffrey G Jarvik, Richard A Deyo
• Cohort study: Resumption of anticoagulation after major bleeding decreases the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (16 May, 2017)

  Marcelle D Smit, Isabelle C Van Gelder
• Observational study: In patients with intracerebral haemorrhage and concomitant atrial fibrillation, optimal timing of reinitiating anticoagulants may be 7–8 weeks after ICH (16 May, 2017)

  Catharina JM Klijn, Floris HBM Schreuder