postcode. A valid COVID-19 vaccine dose was defined as a date of vaccination 14 days or more prior to the COVID-19 episode date. The Wild-type strain was dominant in the UK prior to December 2020. Alpha dominated between December 2020 and April 2021 followed by Delta (May 2021 to mid...
Patient cases seen in clinic, and those discussed by MDTs, were summarized as brief case narratives in Word documents. Using the constant comparative method [77], we produced an initial synthesis of the clinical picture and principles of management based on the first 10 patient cases seen, and ...
The team has since supported the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine programme, including the vaccination roll out. Providing patient-level dashboards to people making decisions is a key focus. “For me, that’s the future," says Bullward. "It’s about being able to go from high-level stuff and ...
UK longitudinal study (LS) samples and 1.1 million individuals with COVID-19 diagnostic codes in electronic healthcare records (EHR) collected by spring 2021. Proportions of presumed COVID-19 cases in LS reporting any symptoms for 12+ weeks ranged from 7.8% and 17% (with 1.2 to 4.8% ...
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Public health agencies to get data on cases and deaths Even though some of these data are already in the public domain by the time the dashboard is updated at 4pm, most people wait until 4pm before they use the data. The main reason for this is that the U...
In such cases, collective learning occurred through idiographic (case-based) reasoning, in which practitioners build lessons from the particular to the general. This contrasts with the nomothetic reasoning implicit in evidence-based guidelines, in which reasoning is assumed to go from the general (e...
Conflicts of interest: AS has served on a number of UK and Scottish Government COVID-19 Advisory Groups and was a member of Astra-Zeneca's Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Taskforce; all of these roles were unremunerated. SVK was co-chair of the Scottish Government’s Expert Reference Group on Eth...
SARS-CoV-2 variants were defined as dominant if they accounted for ≥95% of cases genotyped that week (https://sars2.cvr.gla.ac.uk/cog-uk/). Ethnic group was self-reported using the questionnaire. Pre-existing health conditions were ascertained from self-report using the questionnaire, as ...
The first cases of this virus were detected in the United Kingdom (UK) on the January 31, 2020 [3], and since then over 275,000 patients have had confirmed infection and over 39,000 have died [4]. As part of the response to the pandemic, on March 16, 2020 the UK government ...