PHE - Resources

March 11, 2021 6:00 PM MST Clinical Pearls + Innovative Treatment Dentist Dr. Tammarie Heit and Cardiologist Dr. Mimi Guarneri will explore sleep apnea from their respective fields. Areas of discussion include: sleep-disordered breathing and implications. A clinical diagnosis of sleep-disordered breathing in adults with clinical pearls. Innovative treatment options available from trained dentists and how they work. This hour-long discussion will allow for your questions through this interactive live broadcast. We hope you can join us!

"Efficacy is a crucial concept in vaccine trials, but it's also a tricky one. If a vaccine has an efficacy of, say, 95 percent, that doesn't mean that 5 percent of people who receive that vaccine will get Covid-19. And just because one vaccine ends up with a higher efficacy estimate than another in trials doesn't necessarily mean it's superior. Here's why."

"From July to November 2020, Karthikeyan and team, led by Rob Knight, PhD, professor and director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego, sampled sewage water to see if they could detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. They could. But concentrating the wastewater proved to be a bottleneck -- it's a slow and laborious multi-step process."

Recommended by Trish Makowiak: How can you tell if the bold headlines seen on social media are truly touting the next big thing or if the article isn't worth the paper it's printed on? Understanding Medical Studies, will provide you with the tools and skills you need to critically interpret medical studies, and determine for yourself the difference between good and bad science. The course covers study-design, research methods, and statistical interpretation. It also delves into the dark side of medical research by covering fraud, biases, and common misinterpretations of data. Each lesson will highlight case-studies from real-world journal articles. By the end of this course, you'll have the tools you need to determine the trustworthiness of the scientific information you're reading and, of course, whether or not your Facebook friend is wrong. This course was made possible in part by the George M. O'Brien Kidney Center at Yale.

"Realizing the promise of AI for people with chronic conditions requires rebuilding our health information system so that patients own their own data."

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If you're part of an institution that has access, Embase is useful. It's crazy cost-prohibitive for individuals who aren't, and Elsevier is infamous for their huge-profit model, now with increasingly strong and widespread pushback (incl the entire UC system). So maybe aversive on principle. But good to know about.

PDQ @NCI is #1 for cancer, and has a page just for Integr Med

Apologies, one more big one, also mostly for clinicians / institutions and not insignificant subscription costs. But well-respected and good suite of services for those can do so easily.

"A new electronic self-report body map is an innovative tool for precision health." The CHOIR body map is validated in almost 600 people with chronic pain. Our results demonstrated excellent performance of the map in all of these validation studies. Furthermore, we used the interviews with participants and their suggestions to further optimize the body map. Clinicians and researchers have used the CHOIR body map in over 100,000 assessments across the CHOIR network worldwide.

Open Access. Abstract Introduction: Critical for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain is the anatomical distribution of pain. Several body maps allow patients to indicate pain areas on paper; however, each has its limitations. Objectives: To provide a comprehensive body map that can be universally applied across pain conditions, we developed the electronic Collaborative Health Outcomes Information Registry (CHOIR) self-report body map by performing an environmental scan and assessing existing body maps. Methods: After initial validation using a Delphi technique, we compared (1) pain location questionnaire responses of 530 participants with chronic pain with (2) their pain endorsements on the CHOIR body map (CBM) graphic. A subset of participants (n = 278) repeated the survey 1 week later to assess test-retest reliability. Finally, we interviewed a patient cohort from a tertiary pain management clinic (n = 28) to identify reasons for endorsement discordan