Published in Medical education online
Methods of anatomical education have, as with many facets of normal life, been forced to evolve rapidly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst some authors claim that cadaver dissection is now under threat, we believe the centuries-old practice can and must be upheld.
Published in Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
• Standard diagnosis tools for SARS-CoV-2 detection. • Development in diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 detection. • Emerging biosensing technologies for SARS-CoV-2 detection. • Real-time monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 from blood serum, nasal swab and urine samples.
Published in Porto Biomedical Journal
Background: The coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic has forced health systems to undergo dynamic changes. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the pre-lockdown and of the lockdown period on the surgical activity of a Portuguese Orthopaedic and Traumatology Department and to compare it with the homologous period of 2019. Methods: The surgical act...
Published in Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
Background Since COVID-19 surfaced in December 2019, health-care organizations across the globe have struggled to maintain the safety and well-being of health-care professionals (HCPs). Purpose This study investigates the HCPs’ general understanding of the health risks of COVID-19 and to what extent they are equipped with the knowledge to protect t...
Published in The Surgery Journal
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has evolved as a pandemic of unimaginable magnitude. The health care system is facing a tremendous challenge to provide ethical and quality care. The transformation of the patient-based care to population-based care during the COVID-19 pandemic has raised ethical dilemma among urologists. Our objective...
Published in Small Group Research
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected all of society, including teams in organizational settings. Collaborative teamwork is particularly susceptible to pandemic disruptions, as coordination across individuals becomes challenging in socially distanced and virtual contexts. Unfortunately, COVID-19 research thus far has primarily studied individu...
Published in Cancer Management and Research
COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus disease 2019, is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) declared pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). As the world faces the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis, the oncology community is being impacted by unprecedented challenges. During this trying time, patients ...
Published in SHS Web of Conferences
Research background: As the experience of a number of countries whose health systems were considered effective has shown, the pandemic has caused multiple disruptions, system overloads, and in some cases complete collapse. The negative experience made us think about what characteristics of the system and each specific medical organization are deter...
Published in SHS Web of Conferences
Research background: Retail industry plays an important role in today’s society and in the national economy as a whole, as it introduces and develops new technologies in customer service, provides jobs and increases the level of public welfare. Adaptation to the emergency situation, to the customer needs and requirements provide the company with op...
Published in Epilepsy & Behavior
The aim of our study was to gather information on how people with epilepsy (PwE) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic during the national lockdown. An online questionnaire was therefore offered to the visitors of the Croatian Association for Epilepsy's website. The 22-items questionnaire was designed to acquire information from adults with epilepsy l...
