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KidzMed e-learning to upskill student pharmacists to teach pill swallowing to children.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282070
PloS One; McCloskey AP, Lunn A et. al.

Mar 18th, 2023 - Appropriate medication use is essential in ensuring optimal pharmacotherapeutic outcomes. It is mistakenly assumed that adults can swallow solid oral dosage forms (SODFs, e.g. tablets/capsules colloquially referred to as 'pills'), without difficulty and that children cannot. KidzMed is a 'pill swallowing' training programme designed to teach effective SODF use in patients of all ages. It may be...

Relative role of border restrictions, case finding and contact tracing in controlling S...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-02802-0
BMC Medicine; Pung R, Clapham HE et. al.

Mar 18th, 2023 - Understanding the overall effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions to control the COVID-19 pandemic and reduce the burden of disease is crucial for future pandemic planning. However, quantifying the effectiveness of specific control measures and the extent of missed infections, in the absence of early large-scale serological surveys or random community testing, has remained challenging...

Exhaled patient derived aerosol dispersion during awake tracheal intubation with concur...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-023-00990-x
Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing; Eain MMG, Nolan K et. al.

Mar 18th, 2023 - Awake Tracheal Intubation (ATI) can be performed in cases where there is potential for difficult airway management. It is considered an aerosol generating procedure and is a source of concern to healthcare workers due to the risk of transmission of airborne viral infections, such as SARS-CoV-2. At present, there is a lack of data on the quantities, size distributions and spread of aerosol parti...

Assessing classroom and laboratory spread of COVID-19 in a university after elimination...
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283050
PloS One; Rebmann T, Loux TM et. al.

Mar 18th, 2023 - The objective of this study was to assess COVID-19 classroom transmission in the university setting when physical distancing was eliminated. Data was collected in fall 2021 at a private university. Universal masking, robust contact tracing, vaccination requirement, and enforced testing were in place. Exposures were classified as classroom versus non-classroom. ANOVA and chi-squared tests were u...

Past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection: a systematic review and meta...
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02465-5
Lancet (London, England);

Mar 18th, 2023 - Understanding the level and characteristics of protection from past SARS-CoV-2 infection against subsequent re-infection, symptomatic COVID-19 disease, and severe disease is essential for predicting future potential disease burden, for designing policies that restrict travel or access to venues where there is a high risk of transmission, and for informing choices about when to receive vaccine d...

Bayesian reconstruction of household transmissions to infer the serial interval of COVI...
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02250-4
Lancet (London, England); Geismar C, Nguyen V et. al.

Mar 18th, 2023 - The serial interval is a key epidemiological measure that quantifies the time between an infector's and an infectee's onset of symptoms. This measure helps investigate epidemiological links between cases, and is an important parameter in transmission models used to estimate transmissibility and inform control strategies. The emergence of multiple variants of concern (VOC) during the SARS-CoV-2 ...

The long-term impact of COVID-19 on nursing: An e-panel discussion from the Internation...
https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16683
Journal of Clinical Nursing; Foster MJ, Blamires J et. al.

Mar 17th, 2023 - To explore the International Network for Child and Family Centred Care (INCFCC) members' experiences and views on the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the nursing workforce. On the 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. While some countries adopted a herd immunity approach, others imposed stricter measures to reduce the transmission of the virus. Hospit...

Identifying Adverse Events in Patients Hospitalized in Isolation or Quarantine Due to C...
https://doi.org/10.1097/PTS.0000000000001117
Journal of Patient Safety; de Arriba Fernández A, Medina RS et. al.

Mar 16th, 2023 - This study evaluated the adverse events of COVID-19 isolation or quarantine in patients with nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted to the Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria. This is a retrospective cohort study with 30-day follow-up of 126 patients diagnosed with nosocomial COVID-19 through polymerase chain reaction test, between May 1 and June 30, 2022, in a 500-bed university h...

The care status and factors affecting antiretroviral therapy timing for people living w...
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2023.2185197
AIDS Care; Wang J, Wang G et. al.

Mar 16th, 2023 - This study described the care status of People Living with HIV (PLWH) including antiretroviral therapy (ART) and viral suppression from 2018 to 2020. We recognized that immediate ART was associated with improved viral suppression. Therefore, we also aimed to explore the factors affecting the early initiation of ART. We initiated a retrospective cohort study to evaluate the care status of people...

Predictors of receiving COVID-19 vaccine among adult population in Iran: an observation...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15409-0
BMC Public Health; Soleimanpour H, Sarbazi E et. al.

Mar 16th, 2023 - Vaccination is one of the best ways to stop the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this regard, uunderstanding the features related to the intention of different populations to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is essential for an effective vaccination program. This study aimed to investigate the vaccination intention predictors in the general adult population of Iran. A cross-s...

Dynamic variations in COVID-19 with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Kazakhstan and Pa...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-023-01072-5
Infectious Diseases of Poverty; Cui Q, Shi Z et. al.

Mar 16th, 2023 - The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the Omicron variant presents a formidable challenge for control and prevention worldwide, especially for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Hence, taking Kazakhstan and Pakistan as examples, this study aims to explore COVID-19 transmission with the Omicr...

Pseudotyped Viruses for Coronaviruses.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0113-5_7
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Wang M, Nie J et. al.

Mar 16th, 2023 - Seven coronaviruses have been identified that can infect humans, four of which usually cause mild symptoms, including HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-OC43, and HCoV-HKU1, three of which are lethal coronaviruses, named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Pseudotyped virus is an important tool...

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 patients in ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10013291
BMC Health Services Research; Al Marzouqi AM, Otim ME et. al.

Mar 16th, 2023 - The Coronavirus disease (a highly infectious viral disease) quickly swept across the globe in 2020, causing mortality and severe respiratory illnesses. It quickly affected businesses and publicly provided services in United Arab Emirates (UAE), imposing significant costs to society. The general population of UAE was jittery and unsure how to address the problem. The focus turned on government a...

Establishment and application of test methodology demonstrating the functionality of ai...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2023.03.004
The Journal of Hospital Infection; Vossen JMBMV, Kreikamp AP et. al.

Mar 15th, 2023 - The global COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a greater interest in improving the ventilation of indoor environments in order to remove aerosolized virus and thus reduce transmission. Air purification systems have been proposed as a solution to improve aerosol removal. The aim is to determine the efficacy of air purification systems in reducing the viral load in environmental air of a room. A co...

Healthcare worker access to molnupiravir: A case series.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10013897
PloS One; O'Keeffe JC, Constable M et. al.

Mar 15th, 2023 - Molnupiravir, an oral antiviral shown to reduce COVID-19 severity, is available in Australia via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for treatment of mild-moderate COVID-19. For people less than 70 years of age it is only available with risk factors for severe disease, hence the majority of healthcare workers do not qualify. Currently, Australian health services are under considerable stra...

SARS-CoV-2 transmission in teenagers and young adults in Fútbol Club Barcelona's Multid...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10010953
European Journal of Pediatrics; Hernández-García M, Bassat Q et. al.

Mar 15th, 2023 - Most studies, aimed at determining the incidence and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in children and teenagers, have been developed in school settings. Our study conducted surveillance and inferred attack rates focusing on the practice of sports. Prospective and observational study of those attending the sports facilities of Fútbol Club Barcelona (FCB), in Barcelona, Spain, throughout the 2020-2021 ...

Spatiotemporal reproduction number with Bayesian model selection for evaluation of emer...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10010957
BMC Medical Research Methodology; Rotejanaprasert C, Lawson AB et. al.

Mar 15th, 2023 - To control emerging diseases, governments often have to make decisions based on limited evidence. The effective or temporal reproductive number is used to estimate the expected number of new cases caused by an infectious person in a partially susceptible population. While the temporal dynamic is captured in the temporal reproduction number, the dominant approach is currently based on modeling t...

Estimating the impact of influenza vaccination of low-risk 50-64-year-olds on acute and...
https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2023.2187592
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics; Nguyen VH, Ashraf M et. al.

Mar 14th, 2023 - Co-circulation of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to place considerable strain on health-care services. We estimate the cost-effectiveness and health-care resource utilization impacts of influenza vaccination of low-risk 50-64-y-olds in the United Kingdom (UK) against a background SARS-CoV-2 circulation. A dynamic susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered model was used to simulate infl...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on an in-patient medical unit associated w...
https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.34
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology; Kain DC, Isabel S et. al.

Mar 14th, 2023 - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) hospital outbreaks have been common and devastating during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Understanding SARS-CoV-2 transmission in these environments is critical for preventing and managing outbreaks. Outbreak investigation through epidemiological mapping and whole-genome sequencing phylogeny. Hospital in-patient me...

UK HIV transmission drops in the wake of COVID-19.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10005786
The Lancet. HIV; Kirby T

Mar 14th, 2023 - UK HIV transmission drops in the wake of COVID-19.|2023|Kirby T,|