Published in Expert systems with applications
The COVID-19 virus outbreak has affected most of the world in 2020. This paper deals with artificial intelligence (AI) methods that can address the problem of predicting scale, dynamics and sensitivity of the outbreak to preventive actions undertaken with a view to combatting the epidemic. In our study, we developed a cellular automata (CA) model f...
Published in Chinese neurosurgical journal
The COVID-19 novel coronavirus is contagious, and the mortality is higher in the elderly population. Lockdown in different parts of the world has been imposed since January 2020. Chronic subdural haematoma (cSDH) has a unique natural history in which symptoms can be non-specific, and the onset is insidious. This study aims to evaluate the impact of...
We aimed to compare the gender distribution of clinical trial leadership in COVID-19 clinical trials. We searched https://clinicaltrials.gov/and retrieved all clinical trials on COVID-19 from January 1, 2020 to June 26, 2020. As a comparator group, we have chosen two fields that are not related to emerging infections and infectious diseases: and co...
Published in Journal of econometrics
As a consequence of missing data on tests for infection and imperfect accuracy of tests, reported rates of cumulative population infection by the SARS CoV-2 virus are lower than actual rates of infection. Hence, reported rates of severe illness conditional on infection are higher than actual rates. Understanding the time path of the COVID-19 pandem...
Published in BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundIdentifying risk factors for severe novel-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is useful to ascertain which patients may benefit from advanced supportive care. The study offers a description of COVID-19 patients, admitted to a general ward for a non-critical clinical picture, with the aim to analyse the differences between those transferred to ...
Published in Results in physics
The Coronavirus disease or COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. The COVID-19 pandemic is an inciting panic for human health and economy as there is no vaccine or effective treatment so far. Different mathematical modeling approaches have been suggested to analyze the transmission patterns of this novel infecti...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Since February 2020, data on the clinical features of patients infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and their clinical evolution have been gathered and intensively discussed, especially in countries with dramatic dissemination of this disease. OBJECTIVE: To assess the clinical features of Bra...
目的： 了解新型冠状病毒肺炎期间医务人员的心理健康状况，为进一步开展医务人员的心理干预、确保医务人员心理健康提供参考和科学依据。 方法： 于2020年2月4至16日，采用方便抽样方法，应用《抑郁-焦虑-压力量表》（DASS-21）中的《压力-焦虑亚量表》，通过问卷星调查615名医务人员的心理健康状况。共发放、回收615份问卷，有效问卷615份，有效回收率100%。 结果： 医务人员心理压力和焦虑情绪的检出率分别为13.82%（85/615）及25.37%（156/615）。31~40岁年龄段、工作于重点科室是医务人员心理压力的危险因素（OR=1.779、2.127）；女性、经常用肥皂/洗手液/消毒液洗手是心理压力的保护因素（OR=0.520、0.528）。医务人员工作于定点救治医院、重点科室...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Recently, an article published in the journal Science of the Total Environment and authored by Zhu et al. has claimed the "Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 infection" (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138704). This note shows that the stated dependence between the diffusion of the infection and air ...
Published in Travel medicine and infectious disease
To describe the maternal clinical characteristics, maternal and perinatal outcomes in COVID-19-positive pregnant women. Articles in all languages on the SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women were sought from MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library and LILACS; China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database (CNKI), Chinese Science and Technology Periodi...
