Vespro, Valentina Andrisani, Maria Carmela Fusco, Stefano Di Meglio, Letizia Plensich, Guido Scarabelli, Alice Stellato, Elvira Ierardi, Anna Maria Scudeller, Luigia Coppola, Andrea
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Internal and emergency medicine
To describe radiographic key patterns on Chest X-ray (CXR) in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, assessing the prevalence of radiographic signs of interstitial pneumonia. To evaluate pattern variation between a baseline and a follow-up CXR. 1117 patients tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection were retrospectively enrolled from four centers in Lo...
Thong, Kah Shuen Selvaratanam, Manimegahlai Tan, Chiew Ping Cheah, Meng Fei Oh, Hoey Lin Lee, Pooi Mun Chew, Chii-Chii Chang, Chee-Tao Lee, Jason Choong Yin
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
This commentary shares the experience of a hospital pharmacy department in providing healthcare services during the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia. During this pandemic, the medication delivery system is redesigned to minimize contact among patients and the health care providers. Also, the remote medication monitoring system was implemented to deliv...
Agbozo, Faith Jahn, Albrecht
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Reproductive Health
We provide a situational update on COVID-19 in Ghana, the seventh African country reporting the most cases. Some modifications occurring within the health system to curtail the outbreak and its potential impact on the delivery of antenatal care services are also highlighted. With the discovery of the Delta variant in Ghana, the current attention is...
Yoshioka, Takashi Okubo, Ryo Tabuchi, Takahiro Odani, Satomi Shinozaki, Tomohiro Tsugawa, Yusuke
ObjectiveTo investigate the factors associated with serious psychological distress (SPD) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.DesignNationwide cross-sectional study using survey data.SettingInternet survey using sampling weights for national estimates conducted between 25 August and 30 September 2020 in Japan.ExposuresDemographics (age, gender), s...
Mendez-Dominguez, Nina Santos-Zaldívar, Karen Gomez-Carro, Salvador Datta-Banik, Sudip Carrillo, Genny
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundIn Mexico, the COVID-19 pandemic led to preventative measures such as confinement and social interaction limitations that paradoxically may have aggravated healthcare access disparities for pregnant women and accentuated health system weaknesses addressing high-risk patients’ pregnancies. Our objective is to estimate the maternal mortalit...
Nasirpour, Mohammad Hossein Sharifi, Abbas Ahmadi, Mohsen Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi, Saeid
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Environmental science and pollution research international
The number of sunspots shows the solar activity level. During the high solar activity, emissions of matter and electromagnetic fields from the Sun make it difficult for cosmic rays to penetrate the Earth. When solar energy is high, cosmic ray intensity is lower, so that the solar magnetic field and solar winds affect the Earth externally and origin...
Imlach, Fiona McKinlay, Eileen Kennedy, Jonathan Morris, Caroline Pledger, Megan Cumming, Jacqueline McBride-Henry, Karen
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BMC Family Practice
BackgroundHealth services internationally have been compelled to change their methods of service delivery in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, to mitigate the spread of infection amongst health professionals and patients. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, widespread electronic delivery of prescriptions (e-prescribing) was enabled. The aim of the res...
van Veenendaal, Nicole R Deierl, Aniko Bacchini, Fabiana O'Brien, Karel Franck, Linda S steering, international
AimTo review the evidence on safety of maintaining family integrated care practices and the effects of restricting parental participation in neonatal care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.MethodsMEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO and CINAHL databases were searched from inception to the 14th of October 2020. Records were included if they reported scientific, e...
Frohman, Elliot M Villemarette-Pittman, Nicole R Rodriguez, Adriana Glanzman, Robert Rugheimer, Sarah Komogortsev, Oleg Zamvil, Scott S Cruz, Roberto Alejandro Varkey, Thomas C Frohman, Ashley N
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The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated individuals, families, and institutions throughout the world. Despite the breakneck speed of vaccine development, the human population remains at risk of further devastation. The decision to not become vaccinated, the protracted rollout of available vaccine, vaccine failure, mutational forms of the SARS virus, w...
Rodriguez, Robert M Montoy, Juan Carlos C Hoth, Karin F Talan, David A Harland, Karisa K Eyck, Patrick Ten Mower, William Krishnadasan, Anusha Santibanez, Scott Mohr, Nicholas
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Study objectiveAmong a comprehensive range of frontline emergency department health care personnel, we assessed symptoms of anxiety and burnout, specific coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) work-related stressors, and risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We also determined whether COVID-19 serologic testing of HCP decreased their self-re...
