Methods: In our hospital, the extubation methods changed from positive to normal pressure extubation techniques on March 3, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, we compared the risk of postoperative pneumonia between the positive (April 1, 2017 to December 31, 2019) and normal pressure ...
Fourth, the associations between COVID-19 vaccination and MACE, myocardial infarction, stroke, and all-cause mortality were evaluated to assess if vaccines prevent cardiovascular outcomes. No imputation strategy was conducted due to the small percentage of missing data (0.07%). All tests were two-...
COVID-19, led to a pandemic of the highest concern1,2,3,4,5,6. The genome of the new virus and the epidemiological and clinical features of the infection have been reported1,2,3,4. The viral infection frequently presents as an infection of the upper respiratory ...
The impact of these strategies on COVID-19 and other viral infections remains largely unclear. Objective We aim to investigate the impact of implemented infectious control strategies on the incidences of influenza, enterovirus infection, and all-cause pneumonia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods ...
While some inappropriate diagnosis of CAP is unavoidable due to diagnostic uncertainty when patients are first hospitalized, many patients remain inappropriately diagnosed even on hospital discharge.6 Inappropriate diagnosis of CAP may harm patients through delayed recognition and treatment of acute ...
We included a hyperparameter for the early stopping of the iterative tree-addition procedure to prevent overfit of the model on the training data and optimized across this hyperparameter using fivefold cross-validation. Due to computational and time constraints, hyperparameter optimization was performed...
Our recent study at a German university hospital found that > 50% of immu- nocmpromised patients presenting with CAP would not be adequately treated by the standard empiric therapy due to their atypical pathogen spectrum [25]. In our current inves- tigation where we relied on ICD coding ...
Definition (NCI)An acute, acute and chronic, or chronic inflammation focally or diffusely affecting the lung parenchyma, due to infections (viruses, fungi, mycoplasma, or bacteria), treatment (e.g. radiation), or exposure (inhalation) to chemicals. Symptoms include cough, shortness of breath,...
Using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes, the investigators identified five distinct patient populations: patients with COVID-19 and pneumonia due to COVID-19 (P1); patients with COVID-19 but without pneumonia due to COVID-19 (P2); patients with COVID-1...
Severe community-acquired pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus, 2003-04 influenza season. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12(6):894–9. 35. Kallen AJ, Brunkard J, Moore Z, Budge P, Arnold KE, Fosheim G, et al. Staphylococcus aureus community-acquired pneumonia during the 2006 to 2007 influenza ...