Schlebrowski, Torben Ouali, Rachida Hahn, Barbara Wehner, Stefan Fischer, Christian B
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Polymers
Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a bio-based, biodegradable and commercially used polymer, which in its native form is unfortunately not generally applicable. A widely used technique to adapt polymers to a wider range of applications is the surface modification with amorphous hydrogenated carbon (a-C:H) layers, realized by plasma-enhanced chemical vapo...
Xu, Ming Ouyang, Liu Han, Lei Sun, Kai Yu, Tingting Li, Qian Tian, Hua Safarnejad, Lida Zhang, Hengdong Gao, Yue
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Journal of medical Internet research
Effectively identifying patients with COVID-19 using nonpolymerase chain reaction biomedical data is critical for achieving optimal clinical outcomes. Currently, there is a lack of comprehensive understanding in various biomedical features and appropriate analytical approaches for enabling the early detection and effective diagnosis of patients wit...
McGuire, Sarayna S Klassen, Aaron B Heywood, John Sztajnkrycer, Matthew D
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Prehospital and disaster medicine
Although first responders (FRs) represent a high-risk group for exposure, little information is available regarding their risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. The purpose of the current study was to determine the serological prevalence of past COVID-19 infection in a cohort of municipal law enforcement (LE) and firefighters (FFs)....
Blackburn, Justin Weaver, Lindsay Cohen, Liza Menachemi, Nir Rusyniak, Daniel E Unroe, Kathleen T
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Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
To assess whether using coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) community activity level can accurately inform strategies for routine testing of facility staff for active severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Cross-sectional study. In total, 59,930 nursing home staff tested for active SARS-CoV-2 infection in Indiana. R...
Mancini, Christian M Fu, Xiaoqing Zhang, Yuqing Kuper, Kristi Schulz, Lucas T Bhowmick, Tanaya Postelnick, Michael Lee, Francesca Walensky, Rochelle P Blumenthal, Kimberly G
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
In a study of 121 hospitals from 38 US states, 44% had access to an allergist for inpatient consultations and 39% had access to inpatient penicillin skin testing, indicating that the majority of US hospitals lack sufficient resources to address inpatient penicillin allergies. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infect...
Pilih, Mateja
Plante, Timothy B Blau, Aaron M Berg, Adrian N Weinberg, Aaron S Jun, Ik C Tapson, Victor F Kanigan, Tanya S Adib, Artur B
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Journal of medical Internet research
Conventional diagnosis of COVID-19 with reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing (hereafter, PCR) is associated with prolonged time to diagnosis and significant costs to run the test. The SARS-CoV-2 virus might lead to characteristic patterns in the results of widely available, routine blood tests that could be identified wi...
Olakunde, Babayemi O Pharr, Jennifer R
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International journal of STD & AIDS
People with disabilities are an important target population for HIV prevention and treatment programs. In this study, we examined the prevalence of HIV-related risk behaviors and HIV testing among people with visual and/or hearing impairments in the United States, and compared with people without any impairments. The study was a secondary data anal...
Bobin, Francois Saussez, Sven Lechien, Jérôme R
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Clinical case reports
Probe of pH study may kink in the esophagus leading to nasal symptoms during the removal. © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Okonkwo, I N C Howie, A Parry, C Shelton, C L Cobley, S Craig, R Permall, N El-Sheikha, S H Herbert, N Arnold, P
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Anaesthesia
Despite the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, elective paediatric surgery must continue safely through the first, second and subsequent waves of disease. This study presents outcome data from a children's hospital in north-west England, the region with the highest prevalence of COVID-19 in England. Children and young people unde...