In episode 410, Mike, James, and Adrienne discuss the evidence around antidepressants in the elderly. We find 40% to 80% of elderly patients will recover with antidepressants, but a number of studies show no difference from placebo response rates. In addition, approximately 20% will stop due to adverse effects.
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Tools for Practice
In episode 409, Mike and James yet again welcome Adrienne from Red Deer to talk about whether or not we need to give antibiotics for drained abscesses. We find out that relatively, the benefit of increased cure is similar to the chance of side effects.
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Tools for Practice
There’s Pus About, So Are Antibiotics In or Out? Adding antibiotics for abscess management
In episode 408, Mike and James talk about a couple of recent survey publications. One, which examined patient satisfaction around patient requests and denials of those requests. The other examined how often and why patients are not always honest about disclosing medically relevant information. At the end we decide there is a little liar in all of us and we just need to accept it.
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1) Association of clinician denial of patient requests with patient satisfaction
JAMA Intern Med 2018;178:85-91
2) Prevalence of and factors associated with patient nondisclosure of medically relevant information to clinicians
JAMA Network Open. 2018;1(7):e185293. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.5293
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