Saturday 20 December 2014

#GeriMedJC: December 19, 2014

The two articles critically appraised during  #GeriMedJC on Dec 19 were:

Smith T, Pelpola K, Ball M, Ong A, Myint PK. Pre-operative indicators for mortality following hip fracture surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Age Ageing. 2014 Jul;43(4):464-71. 

Frankenthal D1, Lerman Y, Kalendaryev E, Lerman Y. Intervention with the screening tool of older persons potentially inappropriate prescriptions/screening tool to alert doctors to right treatment criteria in elderly residents of a chronic geriatric facility: a randomized clinical trial. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2014 Sep;62(9):1658-65. 

What a great discussion! Thanks especially to international expert involvement from @DrPhilipBraude who has a special interest in perioperative geriatrics. We also welcomed the McMaster University Division of Geriatric Medicine (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) crew to the live telemedicine version of the journal club.

This is what Symplur analytics had to say about the December tweet chat:


Missed the discussion?  You can get the transcript of the #GeriMedJC tweet chat here.

Thanks again to all those who participated in the Tweet chat:

The next #GeriMedJC will be on January 30, 2015 08:00 EST / 13:00 GMT.  See you then!

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