PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

Using Unannounced Standardized Patients to Assess Clinician Telehealth and Communication Skills at an Urban Student Health Center

Saturday, March 02, 2024 - 4:00 AM

PURPOSE: As the COVID-19 pandemic forced most colleges and universities to go online, student health centers rapidly shifted to telehealth platforms without frameworks for virtual care provision. An urban student health center implemented a needs

Unlocking human-like conversations: Scoping review of automation techniques for personalized healthcare interventions using conversational agents

Friday, March 01, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: The increasing interest in employing CAs for personalized healthcare interventions is noteworthy. The adaptability of dialogue structures and personalization features is still limited. Unlocking human-like conversations may encompass the

Using Longitudinal Surveillance of Unemployment Claims During Public Health Emergencies to Provide Timely and Granular Data on the Social Determinants of Health

Friday, March 01, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: Public health officials should consider using IUI claims for surveillance of social determinants of health, particularly in the context of emergencies, which we show can have a persisting effect on the social patterning of social

Using a Novel Gameplay Intervention to Target Intrusive Memories After Work-Related Trauma: Iterative Qualitative Analysis of Intensive Care Unit Staff Experiences

Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: The intervention has the potential to overcome stigma and reduce the frequency of intrusive memories after traumatic events among ICU staff. Further refinement is needed to improve the adoption and reach of this intervention. A

Using the principles of practice development to address challenges in recruitment and data collection when face-to-face methods are unavailable

Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: PD principles can offer ways for nurse researchers to engage, collaborate with and reflect with people for research projects, including when constraints compete with participation. They can also assist researchers in optimising and

Use of selective gut decontamination in critically ill children: PICnIC a pilot RCT and mixed-methods study

Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: PICnIC's findings indicate that a definitive cluster-randomised controlled trial in selective decontamination of the digestive tract in paediatric intensive care units is feasible with the inclusion modifications, which would need to be

Using Bayesian hierarchical modeling for performance evaluation of clinical trial accrual for a cancer center

Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSIONS: This study comprehensively evaluates the annual performance of clinical trial accrual at the KUCC, revealing a negative impact of COVID-19 and an ongoing positive impact of C3OD implementation. Two sensitivity analyses further validate

Understanding the time-driven shifts of vaccine effectiveness against any and severe COVID-19 before and after the surge of Omicron variants within 2.5 years of vaccination: a meta-regression

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 4:00 AM

CONCLUSION: Outcomes of this meta-regression underscore the evolving nature of COVID-19 in response to vaccination, dosing schedules, and emerging variants, and provide crucial insights for public health interventions and vaccination strategies.

Unexpected risk factors of pathological hikikomori during the COVID-19 pandemic among working adults initially without social isolation: A longitudinal online survey

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 4:00 AM

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Unique pathways downstream of TLR-4 and TLR-7 activation: sex-dependent behavioural, cytokine, and metabolic consequences

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 4:00 AM

INTRODUCTION: Post-infection syndromes are characterised by fatigue, muscle pain, anhedonia, and cognitive impairment; mechanistic studies exploring these syndromes have focussed on pathways downstream of Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 activation. Here