Domegan, Lisa Garvey, Patricia McKeown, Paul Johnson, Howard Hynds, Paul O’Dwyer, Jean ÓhAiseadha, Coilín
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
Background Geocoding (the process of converting a text address into spatial data) quality may affect geospatial epidemiological study findings. No national standards for best geocoding practice exist in Ireland. Irish postcodes (Eircodes) are not routinely recorded for infectious disease notifications and > 35% of dwellings have non-unique addresse...
Yalciner, Gokhan Babademez, Mehmet Ali Gul, Fatih Serifler, Serkan Bulut, Kadir Sinasi Ozturk, Levent
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
Objectives/hypothesis To investigate the effect of FFP3 mask usage on venous blood gases (VBG) and some subjective symptoms Methods VBG analyses and subjective symptom questionary were obtained from 15 healthcare proffesionals before and after 4-h FFP3 mask usage. Results Wearing an FFP3 mask for 4 hours did not change any venous blood gas paramete...
Borku Uysal, Betul Islamoglu, Mehmet Sami Koc, Suna Karadag, Mehmet Dokur, Mehmet
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
Objective The purpose of this study is to guide researchers in the COVID-19 pandemic by evaluating the 100 most cited articles of COVID-19 in terms of bibliometric analysis, Altmetric scores, and dimension badges. Methods “COVID-19” was entered as the search term in Thomson Reuter’s Web of Science database. The 100 most cited articles (T100) were a...
Vanhomwegen, Charlotte Veliziotis, Ioannis Malinverni, Stefano Konopnicki, Deborah Dechamps, Philippe Claus, Marc Roman, Alain Cotton, Fréderic Dauby, Nicolas
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
Hennessy, Maeve A. Linehan, Anna Cowzer, Darren Coyne, Zachary L. Fitzpatrick, Orla Barrett, Fiona Ni Dhonaill, Roisin Hennessy, Bryan T. Grogan, Liam Morris, Patrick G.
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
Background The Covid-19 pandemic poses significant challenges for the management of patients with cancer. In our institution, we adapted our delivery of outpatient systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) by introducing a number of ‘risk-reducing’ measures including pre-assessment screening. Aims We sought to evaluate the experience and perceptions of p...
O’Reilly, David Carroll, Hailey Lucas, Mairi Sui, Jane Al Sendi, Maha McMahon, David Darwish, Waseem McLaughlin, Ronan Khan, Mohammed Raza Sullivan, Hazel O
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in radical changes in the delivery of healthcare worldwide. Our oncology service (at an Irish national cancer centre) rapidly transitioned to the use of telemedicine or virtual clinics (VC) to minimise potential risk of exposure to COVID-19 amongst an immunosuppressed, high-risk population. Our study ai...
Salari, Arsalan Mahdavi-Roshan, Marjan Ghorbani, Zeinab Mortazavi, Seyede Sahere Naghshbandi, Mona Faraghnia, Farsima Rahbar Taramsari, Morteza Ahmadnia, Zahra
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
Background Identifying the non-survived patients’ characteristics compared to survived subjects and introducing the critical risk factors of COVID-19 mortality would help enhance patients’ prognosis and treatment. Methods In the current case-control study, medical records of 103 non-survived COVID-19 patients (cases) and 147 sex-matched survivors (...
Haran, Maeve Kelly, John R. Kennedy, Liam Hennigan, Kieran Farid, Huma Herteu, Cristina Kreisel, Anna Salehin, Shamus O’ Sullivan, Marie Keating, Shay
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
Background Women diagnosed with substance use disorders (SUDs) have higher rates of major medical conditions compared to women without SUDs. Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women aged 20–39 years worldwide and women with SUDs have an increased risk of cervical cancer compared to women without SUD. The National Drug Tr...
Julien, Clement Duconseil, Pauline Mege, Diane Massalou, Damien Ivanov, Todor Brustia, Raffaele Pauleau, Ghislain Berdah, Stéphane V. Bège, Thierry Beghdadi, Nassiba
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
Purpose The brutal COVID-19 pandemic has majorly impacted populations and health systems, and surgeons have observed dramatic changes in their daily clinical activities. A survey of French digestive surgeons was conducted to assess these changes. Methods An electronic survey was sent to French digestive and general surgeons in the Societe Francaise...
Wormser, Johan Romanet, Christophe Philippart, François
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Irish Journal of Medical Science
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) caused a large number of non-ventilated hypoxemic patients to require the use of prone position. The aim of this study is to measure the efficiency and tolerance of prone positioning in ward hypoxemic patients treated for Covid-19. This retrospective study included confirmed Covid-19 hypoxemic pat...
