4). However, the hospitalization forecasts also indicate that without the more aggressive interventions, such as those modeled in scenarios 4 and 5, there would be a high risk that predicted cases will exceed existing county-level hospital capacities (Table 2). This serious outcome will also ...
The Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q) measures the presence of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms67. Many studies have recently viewed the AD continuum as a continuous spectrum characterized by biomarkers and neuropathological findings68,69,70. However, in the case of using functional brain ...
Since we are interested in matching the hospital admissions and the deaths, the equation for R t is redundant. We also emphasize that the number of cases is not worth calibrating to because it is extremely unreliable. In Figure 18, we show the calibration of the 1-SEIR model to the hospit...
Management of the COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a significant challenge to policy makers. This is in large part due to uneven reporting and the absence of open-access visualization tools to present local trends and infer healthcare needs. Here we re
An electronic survey was administered to multidisciplinary neurocritical care providers at 365 hospitals in 32 countries to describe intrahospital transport (IHT) practices of neurocritically ill patients at their institutions. The reported IHT practices were stratified by World Bank country income level. ...
Katherine Auger, MD, MSc | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center To Dr. Courtemanche: Thank you for this thoughtful comment. We conducted additional analyses to address the concern that our original models did not adequately account for non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) enacted around ...
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The Chinese government quickly responded and issued a series of policies and strategies to prevent the spread of the virus in January and February, such as Wuhan lockdown, isolation measures, and the construction of Fire God Mountain hospital. Although Twitter is not the most popular microblogging...
South Korea also prioritised hospital beds for in-critical condition patients, and repurposed dormitories called ‘Life Treatment Centres’ for others. Finally, social distancing has been in place in period 2, with mask wearing in public transports and taxis, but no confinement measures. As of ...
Further, many surgical societies have built pathways of pre-, intra-, and post-operative care for their patients undergoing urgent procedures or non-deferrable oncological interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, in an attempt to reduce hospital visits and consequently the risk of contagion [37]...