CONCLUSION: Clinicians found the CHICO intervention useful to support decision-making around antibiotic prescribing and helped discussions with carers about concerns and treatment decisions. The intervention may need to be adapted to align more with
Susceptibility to respiratory virus infections (RVIs) varies widely across individuals. Because the gut microbiome impacts immune function, we investigated the influence of intestinal microbiota composition on RVI and determined that segmented
CONCLUSIONS: We estimated the trends of influenza vaccination and identified subgroups with decreased vaccination rates during the COVID-19 pandemic among older adults in South Korea. Health policy decision-makers, practitioners, and researchers
CONCLUSIONS: Due to the similar symptoms of some parasitic diseases and COVID-19 and immunosuppressive treatment regimens in these patients that may cause the reactivation or recurrence of parasitic infections, early diagnosis and treatment are
CONCLUSION: Memory clinic patients had increased mortality risk during COVID-19 compared to historical control patients, attributable to dementia patients.
CONCLUSIONS: Training improved employee knowledge about safe work practices and pandemic preparedness. Studies should continue to evaluate the effectiveness of preparedness training to prepare the workforce for infectious disease outbreaks and
CONCLUSIONS: While EHR-embedded secure instantaneous messaging systems represent a novel and potentially valuable communication medium in healthcare, generally agreed-upon best practices for their implementation are, as of yet, undetermined.
The evolving clinical resistance in Plasmodium falciparum and the spike in malarial cases after the COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a search for new antimalarials effective against multi-drug-resistant P. falciparum strains. In this study, we