Post-Discharge Surgical Site Infection Surveillance: A Comparison of Chart Review, Physician Survey, and ICD-9 Code SurveillanceGeeta Sood, MD
As we enter a post-COVID-19 era, mounting evidence suggests persistent or new-onset health consequences, lasting more than a month, following the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection3. This condition is now described as ‘post-COVID-19 conditions’, or post-acute sequelae of COVID-193. ...
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)....
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 ...