Jan 18th, 2022 - The COVIDSurg collaborative was an international multicenter prospective analysis of perioperative data from 235 hospitals in 24 countries. It found that perioperative COVID-19 infection was associated with a mortality rate of 24%. At the same time, the COVER study demonstrated similarly high perioperative mortality rates in vascular surgical patients undergoing vascular interventions even with...

Jan 12th, 2022 - Estimating COVID-19 Infections, Hospitalizations, and Deaths Following the US Vaccination Campaigns During the Pandemic.|2022|Vilches TN,Moghadas SM,Sah P,Fitzpatrick MC,Shoukat A,|epidemiology,prevention & control,trends,trends,trends,epidemiology,

Jan 12th, 2022 - The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of prenatal screening tests on prenatal diagnosis in Taiwan's 14 years from 2006 to 2019. The prenatal screening methods evolved from the second-trimester serum screening to combined first-trimester screening (cFTS) and then followed by the non-invasive cell-free DNA prenatal test (NIPT). The data used by the Department of Statistics, the Mini...

Jan 9th, 2022 - Antenatal care (ANC) is crucial for the health of the mother and unborn child as it delivers highly effective health interventions that can prevent maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. In 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended a minimum of four ANC visits for a pregnant woman with a positive pregnancy during the entire gestational period. Tanzania has sub-optimal adequat...

Jan 8th, 2022 - Research regarding the association between severe obesity and in-hospital mortality is inconsistent. We evaluated the impact of body mass index (BMI) levels on mortality in the medical wards. The analysis was performed separately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We retrospectively retrieved data of adult patients admitted to the medical wards at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York...

Jan 8th, 2022 - The deadliest coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is taking thousands of lives worldwide and presents an extraordinary challenge to mental resilience. This study assesses mental health status during the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated factors among informal waste workers in Bangladesh. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in June 2020 among 176 informal waste workers selected from nine m...

Jan 8th, 2022 - Worldwide, COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes have often been sudden and massive. The study investigated the role SARS-CoV-2 virus spread in nearby population plays in introducing the disease in nursing homes. This was carried out through modelling the occurrences of first cases in each of 943 nursing homes of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes French Region over the first epidemic wave (March-July, 2020). ...

Jan 8th, 2022 - Delay between symptom onset and access to care is essential to prevent clinical worsening for different infectious diseases. For COVID-19, this delay might be associated with the clinical prognosis, but also with the different characteristics of patients. The objective was to describe characteristics and symptoms of community-acquired (CA) COVID-19 patients at hospital admission according to th...

Jan 8th, 2022 - The Australian National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce is producing living, evidence-based, national guidelines for treatment of people with COVID-19 which are updated each week. To continually improve the process and outputs of the Taskforce, and inform future living guideline development, we undertook a concurrent process evaluation examining Taskforce activities and experience of team ...

Jan 8th, 2022 - Perceived risk clearly impacts travel behavior, including destination selection and satisfaction, but it is unclear how or why its effect is only significant in certain cases. This is because existing studies have undervalued the mediating factors of risk aversion, government initiatives, and media influence as well as the multiple forms or dimensions of risk that can mask its direct effect. Th...

Jan 7th, 2022 - Excess mortality captures the total effect of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on mortality and is not affected by misspecification of cause of death. We aimed to describe how health and demographic factors were associated with excess mortality during, compared to before, the pandemic. We analysed a time series dataset including 9,635,613 adults (≥40 years old) registered at Uni...

Jan 7th, 2022 - The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has substantially impacted healthcare utilization worldwide. The objective of this retrospective analysis of a large hospital discharge database was to compare all-cause and cause-specific hospitalizations during the first six months of the pandemic in the United States with the same months ...

Jan 7th, 2022 - Equal Access to the COVID-19 vaccine for all remains a major public health issue. The current study compared the prevalence of vaccination reluctance in general and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and social and health factors associated with intentions to receive the vaccine. A random socio-epidemiological population-based survey was conducted in France in November 2020, in which 85,855 adults part...

Jan 7th, 2022 - The COVID Pandemic may affect fertility behaviour and intentions in many ways. Restrictions on service provision reduce access to family planning services and increase fertility in the short term. By contrast, the economic uncertainty brought about by the pandemic and its impact on mental health and well-being may reduce fertility. These various pathways have been explored in the context of hig...

Jan 6th, 2022 - Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become the breakthrough technology most anticipated to have a transformative effect on pharmaceutical research and development (R&D). This is partially driven by revolutionary advances in computational technology and the parallel dissipation of previous constraints to the collection/processing of large volumes of ...

Jan 6th, 2022 - 2022-the year of recovery?|2022|Nagpaul C,|trends,trends,trends,

Jan 1st, 2022 - The potential benefits of pancreatectomy with major arterial resection have been studied in the past, but findings remain controversial. Pancreatic neck/body cancer (PNBC) involving arteries frequently requires combined resection of the pancreas, artery and portal vein. Nine prospectively-registered consecutive patients with PNBC were enrolled, all underwent pancreatoduodenectomy with common he...

Jan 1st, 2022 - Anastomotic leakage represents the most fearful complication in colorectal surgery. Important risk factors for leakage are low anastomoses and preoperative radiotherapy. Many surgeons often unnecessarily perform a protective ileostomy, increasing costs and necessitating a second operation for recanalization. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of indocyanine green in assessing bowel ...

Jan 1st, 2022 - Considering Toxic Chemicals in the Etiology of Autism.|2022|Volk HE,Ames JL,Chen A,Fallin MD,Hertz-Picciotto I,|etiology,genetics,economics,trends,

Jan 1st, 2022 - Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a technology at the center of many political, economic, and societal debates. This paper formulates a new AI patent search strategy and applies this to provide a landscape analysis of AI innovation dynamics and technology evolution. The paper uses patent analyses, network analyses, and source path link count algorithms to examine AI spatial and tempor...