PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

Training to use smart tablets to access reliable online health information in older adults' post-pandemic: A focused pilot intervention study

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: Future studies should focus on providing detailed, clear instructions at an acceptable pace for older adults.

The causal effect of a health treatment on beliefs, stated preferences and memories

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

The paper estimates the causal effect of a health treatment on patients' beliefs, preferences and memories about the treatment. It exploits a natural experiment which occurred in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. UK

Moderate and severe adverse events in pediatrics: characteristics of incidents reported during the COVID-19 pandemic

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: The characteristics of the notifications are similar between the institutions surveyed, with a low number of moderate and severe incidents.

Self-care interventions to assist family physicians with mental health care of older patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: Feasibility, acceptability, and outcomes of a pilot randomized controlled trial

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: Both interventions were feasible and acceptable to patients. Trained lay coaching increased patients' engagement with the tools. Self-care tools offer a low cost and acceptable remote activity that can be targeted to those with immediate

Arab American well-being and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: As Arab Americans in this study reported numerous mental health outcomes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conclusion that this group warrants attention in the health disparities discourse was further reinforced. The themes discovered in

Occupational health and psychological wellbeing in first line nurses during health crisis periods: reliability study of the SOIC tool

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: The test-retest assessments and the reliability analyses encouraged the usability of the SOIC tool. Furthermore, consistent associations between the five questionnaires were obtained.

Acute and subacute oral toxicity characterization and safety assessment of COVID organics® (Madagascar's Anti-COVID Herbal Tea) in animal models

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: The acute and subacute oral toxicity studies revealed that CVO is not toxic. The specific organ toxicity evaluations also indicated that CVO has no toxic effects on blood parameters and vital organs structure and function at therapeutic

Targeting mevalonate pathway by zoledronate ameliorated pulmonary fibrosis in a rat model: Promising therapy against post-COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: ZA in a dose-dependent manner prevented the pathological effect of CCl4 in the lung by targeting mevalonate pathway. It could be promising therapy against PCPF.

Risk of Arterial and Venous Thrombotic Events Among Patients with COVID-19: A Multi-National Collaboration of Regulatory Agencies from Canada, Europe, and United States

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: There was heterogeneity by country in 90-day absolute risk of ATE and VTE after ambulatory COVID-19 diagnosis both before and during COVID-19 vaccine availability.

Online versus in-person surgical near-peer teaching in undergraduate medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods study

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic stimulated a paradigm shift in medical and surgical education from in-person teaching to online teaching. It is unclear whether an in-person or online approach to surgical teaching