Post-Discharge Surgical Site Infection Surveillance: A Comparison of Chart Review, Physician Survey, and ICD-9 Code SurveillanceGeeta Sood, MD
Patients with cardiogenic shock (Killip class IV), active infection, systemic inflammatory disease, known malignant disease, or surgery within the previous 3 months were excluded, while 1,062 patients were enrolled according to stringent criteria (Supplementary Fig. 1)....
Full or part-time sick leave was more common after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Among the test positives 12.0% reported taking any sick leave 4 weeks after the test and until filling in the questionnaire 6–12 months later, compared to 7.7% of test negative (RD = 4.32%, 95% CI 4.00...
Globally, the number of patients recovering from COVID-19 infection continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. Therefore, we sought to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of the available literature to estimate the prevalence of persistent symptoms and signs at least 12 weeks after ...
Coding long COVID: characterizing a new disease through an ICD-10 lens. BMC Med. 2023;21(1):58. doi:10.1186/s12916-023-02737-6 17. Khullar D, Zhang Y, Zang C, et al. Racial/ethnic disparities in post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection in New York: an EHR-based cohort study...
The consistent results for the long-term allergic consequences of infection with SARS-CoV-2 were shown in the main cohort and replication cohort A (Tables S11–S20). Additionally, we conducted sensitivity analyses to examine the impact of COVID-19 severity on allergic diseases. According to ...
For example, nosocomial infection by microorganism transmit in hospitals is among the top death causes in many countries, which could be controlled by creating self-disinfection environment in hospitals12,13. Thus, if a photocatalyst could store part of its photoactivity in "memory" under visible ...
3.2. Exposure to COVID-19 and Fear of Infection A total of 68.2% of the respondents were in the presence of someone who had died of COVID-19 and 79.4% had contact with relatives of someone who died of COVID-19. Only 24.3% of the sample feared getting infected with COVID-19 during...
Standard tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection were introduced, where the number of people tested exceeded quantitative capabilities. Numerous infections among healthcare workers (HCWs) resulted in a significant reduction in the availability of employees and medical services. For this reason, many hospital ...
During Yersinia pestis infection, the deadly disease called bubonic plague, the serine and threonine residues of human proteins are indeed acetylated by the Yersinia effector protein YopJ [20,21]. The bacterial YopJ protein acts as an acetyltransferase that binds and acetylates serine and threonine...