PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care
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Optimizing immunization services: A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) of child immunization facilities in Pakistan
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CONCLUSIONS: The proposed methodology, utilizing DEA, emerges as a valuable tool for immunization facilities seeking to improve resource utilization and overall efficiency. Model 1, focusing on doses administered indicates facilities low efficiency
Overestimation of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Household Transmission in Settings of High Community Transmission: Insights From an Informal Settlement Community in Salvador, Brazil
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CONCLUSIONS: These findings underscore the ongoing risk of community acquisition of SARS-CoV-2 among households with current infections. The observed high attack rate necessitates swift booster vaccination, rapid testing availability, and therapeutic
Optimal initial insulin dosage for managing steroid-induced hyperglycemia in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: A retrospective single-center study
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CONCLUSIONS: Among patients requiring TDD ⩾ 0.3 units/kg/day, there was no significant difference in treatment failure rate between Groups B, C, and D. Group D had the highest rate of level 1 hypoglycemia. This initial insulin dosage for hospitalized
Online Learning in Medical Student Clerkship: A Survey of Student Perceptions and Future Directions
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Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a major impact on medical education with clerkship students abruptly removed from clinical activities in 2020 and hastily immersed in online learning to maintain medical education. In
On the impact of mass screening for SARS-CoV-2 through self-testing in Greece
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CONCLUSION: Mass self-testing programs are efficient NPIs with minimal social and financial burden; therefore, they are invaluable tools to be considered in pandemic preparedness and response.
Optical coherence tomography angiography suggests choriocapillaris perfusion deficit as etiology of acute macular neuroretinopathy
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CONCLUSIONS: Our data suggests that a perfusion deficit in the choroidal layers is responsible for AMN rather than in the DCP, which is the predominant hypothesis in current literature.
Optimized Recombinant Expression and Purification of the SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Complex
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An optimized protocol has been developed to express and purify the core RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) complex from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The expression and purification of active core SARS-CoV-2 RdRp
Orthopaedic Surgery Volume Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Post-Vaccination Era: Implications for Healthcare Planning
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CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic substantially reduced orthopaedic surgical volumes, which have still not fully recovered through 2022, particularly non-elective procedures. The differential recovery within an orthopaedic surgery program may result
Ophthalmologic Findings in a Premature Infant leading to a Zika Diagnosis during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Report
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We report on the first case of congenital Zika syndrome to be identified during the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico. The Zika virus (ZIKV) infection was first seen in Puerto Rico in December 2015. It is a flavivirus with vertical transmission