COVID-19 Active Research Experience (CARE Project) is a global health effort to learn more about the virus, treatments and vaccines.
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic was defined as April 2020. Abbreviations: PCU=palliative care unit. Among individuals with noncancer diagnoses, the most significant absolute changes were a 13.0%-decrease in individuals who died in hospital (prepandemic=49.6%; postpandemic=36.6%), and a ...
The spread of COVID19 across the globe has caused unspeakable grief and suffering for millions. It has also impacted the care and outcomes for our cancer patients. As of July 2021, nearly 4 million deaths worldwide have been attributed to Covid19. Thankfully, according to data from the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted how specialist palliative care services were delivered and utilized. :To determine the association between the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and PCU/hospice utilization in hospitalized individuals with cancer and non-cancer diagnoses with specialist palliative care needs...
Welcome to Elsevier's COVID-19 Healthcare Hub. Here you will find clinical resources focused on evidence-based practices for coronavirus covering symptom management, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing wellness. Clinical resources on leading COVID-19 topics COVID-19inChildren Explore COVID-19andtheHeart...
What do you recommend health care providers do to protect their families when they come home from taking care of patients with COVID-19?11:10 It sounds like after the acuity of the pandemic has calmed, infection control and adherence to protocols may go up and decrease the spread of other...
COVID-19 pandemic changed the current state of healthcare, especially in terms of reorganization of resources. Chief complaints of patients admitted to hospitals changed drastically in the proceeding months, which worsened the treatment of many acute and chronic conditions involving cardiovascular system ...
Now a common sight in Spain, hospital staff have been protesting the lack of basic equipment and facilities they need to help fight COVID-19. The latest demonstration took place at the Infanta Sofia hospital in Madrid. The demo only lasted ten minutes as the staff needed to ...
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, use of health care services dropped precipitously, with most health care not directly related to treating patients with COVID-19 shut down, motivated by concern that there might be inadequate surge capability for what was perceived as an...
Considering the global transmission of COVID-19, excessive biomedical waste has become a new major threat to public health as well as to the environment during this pandemic. Exposure to waste can easily infect waste management workers; thus, the necessary protective gear must be worn by these ...