PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

'Confidence and fulfillment': a qualitative descriptive study exploring the impact of palliative care training for long-term care physicians and nurses

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

OBJECTIVE: To explore the impact of a 2-day, in-person interprofessional palliative care course for staff working in long-term care (LTC) homes.

Maternal and perinatal health research during emerging and ongoing epidemic threats: a landscape analysis and expert consultation

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: Leveraging current research efforts while engaging multinational and regional networks may be the most effective way to scale up maternal and perinatal research preparedness and response. The findings of this landscape analysis and

Being fit in the COVID-19 era and future epidemics prevention: Importance of cardiopulmonary exercise test in fitness evaluation

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

Endurance and resistance physical activity have been shown to stimulate the production of immunoglobulins and boost the levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines, natural killer cells, and neutrophils in the bloodstream, thereby strengthening the ability

Effectiveness of tixagevimab/cilgavimab (Evusheld) in antiCD20‑treated patients with multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: This work highlights the possible good efficacy of T/C in antiCD20-treated pwMS and pwNMSOD. Based on Bayesian analysis with an informative prior, the T/C group's risk of COVID-19 infection was approximately 20.2 % of the control group's

Application of chimeric antigen receptor therapy beyond oncology: A bibliometric and visualized analysis

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: The advancement of chimeric antigen receptor therapy beyond oncology has witnessed rapid progress in recent years. We have explored the hotspots and research directions in this field. It is hoped that this study could provide references

Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines among children 6-11 years against hospitalization during Omicron predominance in Malaysia

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

There is currently limited data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 6-11 years in Malaysia. This study aims to determine vaccine effectiveness (VE) against COVID-19-related hospitalization after receipt of one- and two-doses

Decentralisation in Clinical Trials and Patient Centricity: Benefits and Challenges

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

Decentralised clinical trials (DCTs) encompass various terms such as virtual, home-based, remote and siteless trials. The objectives of DCTs are to enhance the ease of participation for patients in clinical trials by minimising or removing the

Can You Hear Me Now? Patient Perceptions of Telehealth in a Rural Primary Care Population

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased telehealth adoption. Rural communities experience challenges relating to telehealth, including a shortage of clinicians, low health literacy, mistrust of medicine, and limited technology

The Disproportionate Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Time Allocation of Recipients of NIH Career Development Awards Who Are Women or Caregivers of Dependents

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: This study illuminates demands on women and faculty with dependents during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests increased flexibility and resources are of heightened importance.

Temporal trends of severity and outcomes of critically ill patients with COVID-19 after the emergence of variants of concern: A comparison of two waves

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: In this cohort study, patients with COVID-19 admitted to the ICU in the second wave were younger and had better prognostic scores. Adjusted survival was similar in the two waves, contrasting with record number of hospitalizations, daily