PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

CONCLUSION: VA's universal screening requirement via VA's Risk ID program increased screening for suicide risk among Veterans with mental health care needs. A universal approach to screening may be particularly advantageous for rural Veterans, who

CONCLUSIONS: AiMASK was as effective as human graders in detecting face mask wearing. The prevailing number of COVID-19 infections affected people's mask-wearing behavior. Higher tendencies towards no protection were found in the evenings, during

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Shekhar Saxena and Cindy Chwa discuss the neglect of care for people living with mental disorders during the pandemic, and highlight relevant implications for policy-makers.

CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we observed that the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a reduction in perceived HRQoL globally, especially with respect to the anxiety/depression health domain and among younger people. The COVID-19 health burden would

The effects of the COVID-19 period among people who smoke (compared by sex) are largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to compare body mass index (BMI) increase among men and women who smoked during the pandemic. We used a retrospective

South Korea implemented restrictions on travel from China in January of 2023. In this scenario-based model, we estimated that the travel restrictions for inbound travellers from China were associated with a 0.3%-9.8% decrease in the internal spread

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The current retrospective descriptive study evaluated nursing practice variations on pain management in older adults with dementia admitted to an acute geriatrics unit (AGU) before (2018) and during (2021) the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

The need to bolster primary health care (PHC) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for health is well recognized. In Eastern and Southern Africa, where governments have progressively decentralized health decision-making, health