Swiss Medical Weekly: Newsletter 16 March 2018

View this email in your browser 16 March 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 Review article: Biomedical intelligence THOMAS C. SAUTER, BALTHASAR EBERLE, WALTER A. WUILLEMIN, THOMAS THIELE, ANNE ANGELILLO-SCHERRER, ARISTOMENIS K. EXADAKTYLOS, GABOR ERDÖS, ADAM CUKER, MICHAEL NAGLER How I manage patients with anticoagulation-associated bleeding or urgent surgery Management of anticoagulation-associated bleeding has become more challenging as the number of available drugs increases: vitamin K antagonists, unfractionated and low molecular heparin, as well as the newer direct oral anticoagulants targeting either factor Xa or thrombin.   Original article SOENKE BOETTGER, DAVID GARCIA NUÑEZ, RAFAEL MEYER, ANDRE RICHTER, ALAIN RUDIGER, MARIA SCHUBERT, JOSEF JENEWEIN Screening for delirium with the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC): a re-evaluation of the threshold for delirium Several instruments have been developed to screen for and detect delirium, including the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC). However, the optimal cut-off score indicating delirium is debated.   RAPHAEL STEINER, ROBERT KRIDEL, EMILIANO GIOSTRA, THOMAS MCKEE, RITA ACHERMANN, NICOLAS MUELLER, ORIOL MANUEL, MICHAEL DICKENMANN, MACÉ M SCHUURMANS, LAURENCE DE LEVAL, THOMAS FEHR, MARIANNE TINGUELY, ISABELLE BINET, SERGIO COGLIATTI, EUGENIA HARALAMVIEVA, MICHAEL KOLLER, THE SWISS TRANSPLANT COHORT STUDY (STCS), PIERRE-YVES DIETRICH Low 5-year cumulative incidence of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders after solid organ transplantation in Switzerland Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is a potentially life-threatening complication of immunosuppression and oncogenic viral infections.   JAKOB R. PASSWEG, HELEN BALDOMERO, MARC ANSARI, GABRIELA M. BAERLOCHER, MARIO BARGETZI, YVES CHALANDON, MICHEL A. DUCHOSAL, SABINE GERULL, TAYFUN GÜNGÖR, JÖRG P. HALTER, DOMINIK HEIM, URS HESS, KURT LEIBUNDGUT, STAVROULA MASOURIDI-LEVRAT, ANTONIA MÜLLER, GAYATHRI NAIR, THOMAS PABST, CHRISTOPH RENNER, ADRIAN SCHMIDT, GEORG STUSSI, GRAZIA NICOLOSO DE FAVERI, URS SCHANZ, FOR THE SWISS BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION GROUP (SBST) Haematopoietic cell transplantation in Switzerland, changes and results over 20 years: a report from the Swiss Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Working Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation registry 1997–2016 Federal regulations in Switzerland have made it mandatory to maintain a registry including all heamatopietic stem cell transplants performed in the country.   Technical comment MATTHIAS EGGER, ANGELIKA KALT Technical comment on: Hagner M. Open access, data capitalism and academic publishing   Author reply to Technical comment MICHAEL HAGNER Response to Matthias Egger and Angelika Kalt   Latest op-eds HALSHKA GRACZYK Women in science: a call to action to fix the leaky pipeline We are far from reaching equality, equity, and parity. Women currently represent less than 30% of the research and development workforce worldwide. Copyright © 2018 EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag AG, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: office@smw.ch