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August 11, 2020, Vol 324, No. 6, Pages 529-614

This Week in JAMA

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):e200032. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.0032
Original Investigation

Effects of Liberal vs Restrictive Transfusion Thresholds on Survival and Neurocognitive Outcomes in Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants: The ETTNO Randomized Clinical Trial

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):560-570. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.10690

This randomized clinical trial assesses the effect of liberal vs restrictive red blood cell transfusion thresholds (based on postnatal age and current health state) on death or disability at 24 months of age among extremely low-birth-weight infants.

Effect of High Add Power, Medium Add Power, or Single-Vision Contact Lenses on Myopia Progression in Children: The BLINK Randomized Clinical Trial

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):571-580. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.10834

This randomized trial compares the effects of higher add power (+2.50 D) vs lower add power (+1.50 D) soft multifocal contact lenses vs single-vision contact lenses on myopia progression at 3 years in children aged 7 to 11 years with myopia.

Association of Nonoperative Management Using Antibiotic Therapy vs Laparoscopic Appendectomy With Treatment Success and Disability Days in Children With Uncomplicated Appendicitis

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):581-593. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.10888

This nonrandomized controlled trial allowed children with appendicitis and their families to choose antibiotic therapy vs laparoscopic appendectomy as initial management, and compares 1-year disability days and treatment success鈥攏o need for later surgery鈥攂etween the groups.

Research Letter

COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):602-603. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12528

This study describes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case rates and deaths among federal and state prisoners and compares them with corresponding rates for the US population.

Persistent Symptoms in Patients After Acute COVID-19

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):603-605. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12603

This case series describes COVID-19 symptoms persisting a mean of 60 days after onset among Italian patients previously discharged from COVID-19 hospitalization.

Trends in Daily Use of Biotin Supplements Among US Adults, 1999-2016

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):605-607. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8144

This pharmacoepidemiology study uses NHANES data to characterize the prevalence and trends in use of high-dosage biotin supplementation among US adults between 1999 and 2016.

Viewpoint

COVID-19: Beyond Tomorrow

The Work of Philanthropy in Responding to COVID-19 and Addressing Inequality: A New Foundation

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):541-542. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12904

In this Viewpoint the president of the Ford Foundation calls on philanthropic and other wealthy organizations to make creative and generous grants to less well-endowed counterpart institutions and communities to redress the racial and socioeconomic disparities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and continued killings of Black Americans.

Pooling Data From Individual Clinical Trials in the COVID-19 Era

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):543-545. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13042

This Viewpoint proposes principles and processes to allow pooling of individual patient data from clinical trials given decelerating participant recruitment at sites where the COVID-19 surge has been controlled and new cases are diminishing.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and Its Role in the Pandemic Vaccine Response

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):546-547. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13167

This Viewpoint discusses the role of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a federal advisory committee that makes vaccine-related recommendations to the CDC and DHHS, in guiding the development and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.

COVID-19 Response in Lebanon: Current Experience and Challenges in a Low-Resource Setting

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):548-549. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12695

This Viewpoint describes the unique challenges faced by Lebanon, a small densely populated country with a fragmented health care system, in its response to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, and it summarizes organizational, testing, and communications policies the nation has implemented that might be useful to other resource-limited countries and settings.

Prevention of Unintentional Medication Overdose Among Children: Time for the Promise of the Poison Prevention Packaging Act to Come to Fruition

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):550-551. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.2152

This Viewpoint discusses the success of US legislation to help prevent medication overdoses in children and suggests strategies to continue to reduce these overdoses, including changes to child-resistant packaging.

Clinical, Legal, and Ethical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence鈥揂ssisted Conversational Agents in Health Care

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):552-553. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.2724

This Viewpoint discusses evidence supporting use of conversational agents in health care鈥攁rtificial intelligence (AI) programs that interpret users鈥 questions or concerns and respond with answers鈥攁nd proposes 12 domains (eg, safety, transparency, security) that clinicians and health care organizations should evaluate before using them for patient care.

The Convergence of Neurology and Psychiatry: The Importance of Cross-Disciplinary Education

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):554-555. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.0062

This Viewpoint reviews the historical convergence and then divergence of psychiatry and neurology as clinical disciplines and calls for a transformation of graduate and postgraduate education to integrate the two and span intersections of the humanities, philosophy, and science.

A Piece of My Mind

Good for Us All

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):556-557. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12630

In this narrative medicine essay, a gastroenterologist recalls a microagression from a patient during fellowship training and realizes the fault lay with the medicine profession and calls for antiracist training as one measure in dismantling race-based health disparities.

Editorial

Reducing the Progression of Myopia

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):558-559. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.10953
JAMA Insights

Clinical Update

Lipids and Lipoproteins in 2020

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):595-596. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.5685

This JAMA Insights Clinical Update reviews the central role of apolipoprotein B100 molecule (apoB)鈥揷ontaining lipoproteins in the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), with implications for patient risk assessment and choice of lipid-lowering therapy.

JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis

Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):597-598. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.3905

This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the European Society of Cardiology鈥檚 2019 guidelines for diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism.

JAMA Clinical Challenge

Abdominal Pain and an Appendiceal Mass

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):599-600. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.4707

A 68-year-old woman with history of uterine carcinoma (unknown histology) treated 30 years prior had 2 months of generalized abdominal pain and distention but no fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, blood in the stool, or weight loss. CBC and serum chemistries were unremarkable; CT and MRI showed pelvic ascites and an enhancing lesion at the base of the cecum; CEA level was 18 ng/mL (normal <5 ng/mL). What is the diagnosis and what would you do next?

Editor's Note
Medical News & Perspectives

School Superintendents Confront COVID-19鈥斺淭here Are No Good Options for Next Year鈥

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):534-536. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12575

This Medical News story discusses the challenge of minimizing the risk of COVID-19 in kindergarten through 12th grades while maintaining prepandemic educational standards.

The JAMA Forum

Health Care Cost Growth Benchmarks in 5 States

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):537-538. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12437
News From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Emerging Drug-Resistant Meningitis Detected in the US

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):540. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13761

Severe Hypoglycemia Linked With Over-the-Counter Supplement

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):540. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12914
Biotech Innovations

Promising Early Results for Potent, Long-Acting HIV Injection

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):539. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.14031

Regulatory T Cells Tested in Patients With COVID-19 ARDS

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):539. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13765

In Familial ALS, Antisense Agent Reduces Disease-Related Proteins

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):539. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.14032
The Arts and Medicine

Amabi茅鈥擜 Japanese Symbol of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):531-533. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.12660

This Arts and Medicine feature discusses Amabi茅, a 19th-century Japanese 测艒办补颈 character said to protect against spread of infection, who has become the symbol of public health hygiene in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Poetry and Medicine

Reprieve

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):610. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.5659
JAMA Revisited

Internal and External Antisepsis

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):611. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.13565
JAMA Patient Page

Keeping Medicine Away From Children

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):614. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.7206

This JAMA Patient Page describes practices for keeping household medicine safely stored away from children and what to do if an unintentional medicine exposure happens.

Comment & Response

Need for Additional Trials of Vitamin C for Sepsis

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):607-608. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8633

Need for Additional Trials of Vitamin C for Sepsis鈥擱eply

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):608. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8636

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment and ICU Admission Near the End of Life

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):608. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8639

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment and ICU Admission Near the End of Life鈥擱eply

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):608-609. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8654
JAMA Masthead

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JAMA. 2020;324(6):529-530. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.13558
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