Swiss Medical Weekly: Newsletter 25 February 2018

View this email in your browser 25 February 2018 Dear Colleagues We are happy to send you the list of our newly published articles. You will find the full text of every article as an open access publication on the website www.smw.ch. There, you also have the possibility to post comments and to share the articles with your colleagues. With kind regards Professor Adriano Aguzzi, Editor-in-chief, Swiss Medical Weekly Systematic review NAHARA ANANI MARTÍNEZ-GONZÁLEZ, ANDREAS PLATE, OLIVER SENN, STEFAN MARKUN, THOMAS ROSEMANN, STEFAN NEUNER-JEHLE Shared decision-making for prostate cancer screening and treatment: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials Men facing prostate cancer screening and treatment need to make critical and highly preference-sensitive decisions that involve a variety of potential benefits and risks. Shared decision-making is considered fundamental for "preference-sensitive" medical decisions.   Original article KATHRIN BAUSCH, JAN ADAM ROTH, HANS HELGE SEIFERT, ANDREAS F. WIDMER Overuse of antimicrobial prophylaxis in low-risk patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate Adherence to antimicrobial prophylaxis recommendations of the European Association of Urology effectively reduces infectious complications and resistance rates. The high frequency of antimicrobial resistance in urological patients may reflect inappropriate use of antimicrobial agents and prolonged prophylaxis.   Latest op-eds PETER J. MEIER-ABT, ADRIEN K. LAWRENCE, LISELOTTE SELTER, EFFY VAYENA, TORSTEN SCHWEDE The Swiss approach to precision medicine Precision or personalised medicine/health aims to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases by taking into account individual variability of genes, environment and lifestyle for each person.   ANDREAS PERREN, ILARIA JERMINI GIANINAZZI, VASCO PIFFARETTI, SIMONE DE GOTTARDI, BERNARD CERUTTI Black clouds in the Emergency Room: myth or fact? The reliability of anecdotes regarding the presence of unfortunate junior doctors in the Emergency Department, so-called black clouds, is unknown. The authors tested this myth by identifying physicians who habitually present an outstandingly high workload. Copyright © 2018 EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag AG, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: office@smw.ch