It is with some degree of sadness but much excitement that I write this editorial for the final edition of Healthcare Infection. The Journal commenced in 1995, with an editorial by the then President Alison Pype
Health care workers (HCW) are a high-risk population to acquire SARS-CoV-2 infection from patients or other fellow HCW. This study aims at estimating the seroprevalence against SARS-CoV-2 in a random sample of HCW from a large hospital in Spain. Of the 578 participants recruited from 28 ...
Tracheostomy is an aerosol generating procedure, and health-care workers are at risk of infection during insertion and subsequent care, even when appropriate personal pro- tective equipment (PPE) is used. Aerosol-generating pro- cedures were identified as a leading cause of viral transmission during...
By encouraging students to participate in the three-step learning activity, students can be guided to pay attention to the focus of learning and reflect on their acquired knowledge, and the teacher can give detailed explanations to support students' understanding of the learning materials (Lin et ...
first year, and with anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders, while those in the first five years were excluded. By conducting this analysis, we could avoid the protopathic bias, that arises when the initiation of the exposure occurs in response to an undiagnosed disease under study outcome4...
COVID-19 infection headache Itovebi may affect fertility in males and in females who are able to become pregnant. Talk to your healthcare provider if this is a concern for you. These are not all the possible side effects of Itovebi...
If there was contact with a COVID-19 case in the private setting or there was no contact situa- tion within the healthcare facility within the last 14 days, this was categorized as a community-acquired COVID- 19 infection. Data analysis Descriptive analysis of frequency and duration of long...
Currently, there is a paucity of data concerning the long-term outcomes, educational placement and quality of life of children implanted with hearing devices from large and representative samples of the population. To address this concern, a large, prosp
The concerns for patients with multiple sclerosis are because of an enhance risk of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The MS patients pose challenges in this pandemic situation, because of the regulatory defect of autoreactivity of the immune system and ...
Because the antecedents of allergic diseases are considered to occur in early life and most vaccines are administered during the first year of life before geohelminth infections are acquired, there is interest in the potential effects of maternal geohelminth infections on infant morbidity [35], and...