Questioning Medicine

Fox MT et al. Comparative effectiveness of antibiotic treatment duration in children with pyelonephritis. JAMA Netw vOpen 2020 May 1; 3:e203951. (https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3951) Rates of treatment failure did not differ significantly between the short and prolonged courses (11.2% and 9.4%). https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765729?guestAccessKey=2169ba8b-43fc-4360-bed7-acf7a31b1c9d&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=etoc&utm_term=051220Effect of Biomechanical Footwear on Knee Pain in People With Knee Osteoarthritis: The BIOTOK Randomized Clinical TrialIn jama may 12 – look to see if special biomechanical footwear could help osteoarthirits knee pain-At 24 weeks of follow-up, the mean standardized WOMAC pain subscore improved from 4.3 to 1.3 in the biomechanical footwear group and from 4.0 to 2.6 in the control footwear group (between-group difference in scores at 24 weeks of follow-up, −1.3 [95% CI, −1.8 to