| | Dear Dr Wirawan,
We are pleased to share with you our May content update, featuring journal news, top articles and our most recent table of contents.
Call for Papers BMC Medicine will soon be launching a new article collection guest edited by Prof Alimuddin Zumla and Prof Ibrahim Abubakar and focused on all aspects of migrant and refugee health. This collection was inspired by the unprecedented migrant and refugee crisis we are currently witnessing on a global level. We are seeking submissions of research articles on infectious and non-communicable disease research, tropical medicine, and global health policy that have both broad interest and high clinical and public health relevance due to their impact on migrant health.
From the Blog  |
| Caesarean section rates in excess of recommended thresholds may pose risks to mothers and infants due to non-medically necessary procedures, and rising healthcare costs. Our study published in BMC Medicine shows that a training program for clinicians resulted in very favorable results: better quality of care for mothers and infants, and major cost savings. |
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| Tjibbe Donker writes here about his BMC Medicine study, aiming to help control the spread of antimicrobial resistance between hospitals by comparing the severity and closeness of cases. |
Table of Contents Commentary
Correspondence | Late presentation of chronic viral hepatitis for medical care: a consensus definition | Stefan Mauss, Stanislas Pol, Maria Buti, Erika Duffell, Charles Gore, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Hilje Logtenberg-van der Grient, Jens Lundgren, Antons Mozalevskis, Dorthe Raben, Eberhard Schatz, Stefan Wiktor and Jürgen K. Rockstroh
BMC Medicine 2017 15:92 |
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Opinion
Research | Disease management in the treatment of patients with chronic heart failure who have universal access to health care: a randomized controlled trial | Ofra Kalter-Leibovici, Dov Freimark, Laurence S. Freedman, Galit Kaufman, Arnona Ziv, Havi Murad, Michal Benderly, Barbara G. Silverman, Nurit Friedman, Tali Cukierman-Yaffe, Elad Asher, Avishay Grupper, Dorit Goldman, Miriam Amitai, Shlomi Matetzky, Mordechai Shani, Haim Silber and for the Israel Heart Failure Disease Management Study (IHF-DMS) investigators
BMC Medicine 2017 15:90 |
| Comparative safety of anti-epileptic drugs during pregnancy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of congenital malformations and prenatal outcomes | Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Elise Cogo, Patricia Rios, Sharon E. Straus, Yaron Finkelstein, Ryan Kealey, Emily Reynen, Charlene Soobiah, Kednapa Thavorn, Brian Hutton, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Fatemeh Yazdi, Jennifer D'Souza, Heather MacDonald and Andrea C. Tricco
BMC Medicine 2017 15:95 |
| Habitual coffee consumption and genetic predisposition to obesity: gene-diet interaction analyses in three US prospective studies | Tiange Wang, Tao Huang, Jae H. Kang, Yan Zheng, Majken K. Jensen, Janey L. Wiggs, Louis R. Pasquale, Charles S. Fuchs, Hannia Campos, Eric B. Rimm, Walter C. Willett, Frank B. Hu and Lu Qi
BMC Medicine 2017 15:97 |
| Mediation of the effect of malaria in pregnancy on stillbirth and neonatal death in an area of low transmission: observational data analysis | Kerryn A. Moore, Freya J. I. Fowkes, Jacher Wiladphaingern, Nan San Wai, Moo Kho Paw, Mupawjay Pimanpanarak, Verena I. Carrara, Jathee Raksuansak, Julie A. Simpson, Nicholas J. White, François Nosten and Rose McGready
BMC Medicine 2017 15:98 |
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