So, the rationale for reusing them, is only the shortage. Nobody's saying that this is the best way to go. I believe that when the industry in Brazil will start to produce it and the government allows selling them only to hospitals. We might stop reusing them. A (Dr. Marcelo Ama...
Staff and visitors are potential entry points to nursing homes for the virus. The best facilities use a multi-layered approach, protecting residents with masks, screening questions, temperature checks and enhanced infection control. "What we've learned during COVID is that the rate of spread is ...
Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of COVID-19, a fatal disease emerged from Wuhan, a large city in the Chinese province of Hubei in December 2019. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic due to its spread to other countries inside
Survey questions were derived from a previously validated study, but the specific question that subjects answered might not have covered the broad range of physician wellness. The survey used physician self-report of feelings up to six months earlier, which introduced the potential for recall bias,...
4) according to the SOFA score [38] adapted for COVID-19. The questionnaires contain questions which can be answered after the laboratory analyses have been done and the results have been obtained, so it is first necessary to complete chosen biochemical analyses. There is a predefined set of...
Public health officials have been talking a lot about "community-based transmission" of COVID-19 and it's not always clear how this is different from a person who picked up COVID while traveling abroad. Because of the travel alerts and the public health screening at airports, many people wh...
A questionnaire with 27 questions was developed to address the participation of the students in the telehealth program. The questionnaire included questions about the student’s profile, the system usability, and the satisfaction in participating in such a telehealth program. The questionnaire was genera...
(2020) put forward a good suggestion. They recommend the use of mobile phone-based online surveys to collect data, which can be used for preliminary screening and diagnosis of COVID-19 infected individuals. Thousands of data points can be processed by the artificial intelligence framework, and ...
COVID-19 Imaging AI 1. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic surprised the world with its rapid spread and has had a major impact on the lives of billions of people. Imaging is playing a role in the fight against the disease, in some countries as a key tool, from screening and diagnosis ...
A final year student at St George's Hospital said: "There is no doubt our education has been affected by COVID, both in terms of reduced placement time over the 12 months and the limited 'range' of conditions in hospitals at the moment. This has been particularly true for routine/electiv...