SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in children and adolescents with COVID-19: a systematic review
Conclusion
Overall patterns of SARS-CoV-2 VOC infections in children and adolescents are similar to those of earlier lineages. Comparisons between different pandemic periods, countries and age groups should be improved with complete reporting of relevant contextual factors, including VOCs, vaccination status of study participants and the risk of exposure of the population to SARS-CoV-2.
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CRD42022295207. (Source: BMJ Open)
Source: BMJ Open - October 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wiedenmann, M., Ipekci, A. M., Araujo-Chaveron, L., Prajapati, N., Lam, Y. T., Alam, M. I., L'Huillier, A. G., Zhelyazkov, I., Heron, L., Low, N., Goutaki, M. Tags: Open access, Epidemiology, COVID-19 Source Type: research
Hospitalization burden related to herpes zoster infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain (2020-2021)
The objective of this study is to estimate hospitalization rates, mortality rates and costs due to HZ during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain (2020-2021). This is a descriptive study based on an analysis of information from the Minimum Basic Dataset and coded according to the Spanish version of the 10th International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM). Hospitalization, mortality and case-fatality rates, and median length of hospitalization were calculated.. The hospitalization rate was 14.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the mortality rate was 1.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Both increased consi...
Source: Herpes - October 6, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Victor-Manuel Irigoyen-Mansilla Ruth Gil-Prieto Enrique Gea-Izquierdo Jos é Luis Barrio-Fernández Valent ín Hernández-Barrera Angel Gil-de-Miguel Source Type: research
Hospitalization burden related to herpes zoster infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain (2020-2021)
The objective of this study is to estimate hospitalization rates, mortality rates and costs due to HZ during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain (2020-2021). This is a descriptive study based on an analysis of information from the Minimum Basic Dataset and coded according to the Spanish version of the 10th International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM). Hospitalization, mortality and case-fatality rates, and median length of hospitalization were calculated.. The hospitalization rate was 14.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the mortality rate was 1.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Both increased consi...
Source: Herpes - October 6, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Victor-Manuel Irigoyen-Mansilla Ruth Gil-Prieto Enrique Gea-Izquierdo Jos é Luis Barrio-Fernández Valent ín Hernández-Barrera Angel Gil-de-Miguel Source Type: research
Hospitalization burden related to herpes zoster infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain (2020-2021)
The objective of this study is to estimate hospitalization rates, mortality rates and costs due to HZ during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain (2020-2021). This is a descriptive study based on an analysis of information from the Minimum Basic Dataset and coded according to the Spanish version of the 10th International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10-CM). Hospitalization, mortality and case-fatality rates, and median length of hospitalization were calculated.. The hospitalization rate was 14.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the mortality rate was 1.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Both increased consi...
Source: Herpes - October 6, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Victor-Manuel Irigoyen-Mansilla Ruth Gil-Prieto Enrique Gea-Izquierdo Jos é Luis Barrio-Fernández Valent ín Hernández-Barrera Angel Gil-de-Miguel Source Type: research
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on advanced life support units ’ prehospital management of the stroke code in four Spanish regions: an observational study
Stroke is the most common time-dependent pathology that pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS) are confronted with. Prioritisation of ambulance dispatch, initial actions and early pre-notification have ... (Source: BMC Emergency Medicine)
Source: BMC Emergency Medicine - October 4, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nicol ás Riera-López, Francisco Aranda-Aguilar, Montse Gorchs-Molist and Jose Antonio Iglesias-Vázquez Tags: Research Source Type: research
Primary care during COVID-19 pandemic - a survey to establish clinical needs and lessons learned in infectious respiratory diseases in Spain
CONCLUSIONS: This survey identified the conditions of Spanish GPs in terms of the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 and flu patients. Respondents' comments suggested that quite radical system-level adjustments are needed to allow GPs to capitalize on the potential benefits of POC tests for diagnosis, reduction of referrals, and monitoring of these diseases.PMID:37789255 | DOI:10.1186/s12875-023-02160-z (Source: Primary Care)
Source: Primary Care - October 3, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Manuel Linares Laura Santos Larregola Pilar Galicia Garc ía de Yébenes Joaqu ín Santos Galilea Source Type: research
Primary care during COVID-19 pandemic - a survey to establish clinical needs and lessons learned in infectious respiratory diseases in Spain
CONCLUSIONS: This survey identified the conditions of Spanish GPs in terms of the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 and flu patients. Respondents' comments suggested that quite radical system-level adjustments are needed to allow GPs to capitalize on the potential benefits of POC tests for diagnosis, reduction of referrals, and monitoring of these diseases.PMID:37789255 | PMC:PMC10546758 | DOI:10.1186/s12875-023-02160-z (Source: Primary Care)
Source: Primary Care - October 3, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Manuel Linares Laura Santos Larregola Pilar Galicia Garc ía de Yébenes Joaqu ín Santos Galilea Source Type: research
COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Hesitancy among Hispanic Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Puerto Rico Community Engagement Alliance against COVID-19 Disparities (PR-CEAL)
In conclusion, booster vaccination refusal was associated with lower perceived vaccine benefits and greater barriers among adults in Puerto Rico. These results informed the development of PR-CEAL's targeted community outreach strategies and public health campaigns to increase booster vaccine uptake.PMID:37766103 | DOI:10.3390/vaccines11091426 (Source: Cancer Control)
Source: Cancer Control - September 28, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: H érmilis Berríos Andrea L ópez-Cepero Cynthia M P érez Stephanie Cameron Adriana D Pons Calvo Vivian Col ón-López Source Type: research
Vaccine promotion strategies in community pharmacy addressing vulnerable populations: a scoping review
CONCLUSION: Pharmacists prioritize lifecycle and clinical vulnerability at the expense of narrowing down the definition of vulnerability. Some vulnerable groups are also under targeted in pharmacies. A wide variety of promotional strategies are available to pharmacies to overcome the specific barriers experienced by various groups.PMID:37741997 | DOI:10.1186/s12889-023-16601-y (Source: Herpes)
Source: Herpes - September 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Alexandre Chadi Daniel J G Thirion Pierre-Marie David Source Type: research
Vaccine promotion strategies in community pharmacy addressing vulnerable populations: a scoping review
CONCLUSION: Pharmacists prioritize lifecycle and clinical vulnerability at the expense of narrowing down the definition of vulnerability. Some vulnerable groups are also under targeted in pharmacies. A wide variety of promotional strategies are available to pharmacies to overcome the specific barriers experienced by various groups.PMID:37741997 | PMC:PMC10518112 | DOI:10.1186/s12889-023-16601-y (Source: Herpes)
Source: Herpes - September 23, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Alexandre Chadi Daniel J G Thirion Pierre-Marie David Source Type: research
Challenges to delivering evidence-based management for long COVID
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists forewarned of a potential medium to long-term post-acute sequelae in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, similar to that documented in bacterial,1 protozoan and viral infections including Epstein-Barr virus,2 Ebola virus,3 dengue virus,4 Chikunguña virus,5 going far back to the influenza pandemic in 1918.6 These varied symptoms following acute SARS-CoV-2 infection is now termed as long COVID and is also known as long-haulers syndrome, post COVID-19 condition (PCC),7 ‘post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC)’,7 ‘chronic COVID’ and many oth...
Source: Evidence-Based Medicine - September 21, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Peiris, S., Izcovich, A., Ordunez, P., Luciani, S., Martinez, C., Aldighieri, S., Reveiz, L. Tags: Open access, COVID-19 Analysis Source Type: research
Feasibility of a selective targeted strategy of HIV testing in emergency departments: a before-after study
CONCLUSION: Implementation of a strategy to test for HIV in selective clinical situations in the ED is feasible and may lead to a substantial increase in HIV testing and diagnoses.PMID:37729041 | DOI:10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001078 (Source: Herpes)
Source: Herpes - September 20, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Juan Gonz ález Del Castillo Em ília Mirò Iria Miguens Patricia Trenc Bego ña Espinosa Lourdes Piedrafita Mar ía Jesús Pérez Elías Santiago Moreno Federico Garc ía Alberto Villamor M íriam Carbó Emili Gen é Òscar Mirò Emergency HIV network in Source Type: research
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the management of gynecologic cancer: a Spanish survey. Observational, multicenter study
The SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) pandemic changed the distribution of healthcare resources, leading in many cases to the suspension of all non-essential treatments and procedure... (Source: BMC Women's Health)
Source: BMC Women's Health - September 14, 2023 Category: OBGYN Authors: Myriam Gracia, Elena Rodr íguez, María Dolores Diestro, Emanuela Spagnolo, Virginia García, Jaime Siegrist, Yolanda Pérez, Ignacio Zapardiel and Alicia Hernández Tags: Research Source Type: research
Regulating Movement in Pandemic Times
AbstractAs COVID-19 and its variants spread across Australia at differing paces and intensity, the country ’s response to the risk of infection and contagion revealed an intensification of bordering practices as a form of risk mitigation with disparate impacts on different segments of the Australian community. Australia’s international border was closed for both inbound and outbound travel, with few exceptions, while states and territories, Indigenous communities, and local government areas were subject to a patchwork of varying restrictions. By focusing on borders at various levels, our research traces how the logics ...
Source: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - September 14, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Management of immunosuppressive therapy in kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19. A multicentre national study derived from the Spanish Society of Nephrology COVID registry
CONCLUSIONS: The management of immunosuppressive therapy after diagnosis of COVID19 was primarily based on discontinuation of mycophenolic acid with very discrete reductions or discontinuations of calcineurin inhibitors. This immunosuppression management did not influence renal function or changes in anti-HLA antibodies 6 months after diagnosis.PMID:37661514 | DOI:10.1016/j.nefroe.2023.08.004 (Source: Nefrologia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola Nefrologia)
Source: Nefrologia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola Nefrologia - September 4, 2023 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Mar ía O López-Oliva Isabel P érez-Flores Mar ía Molina Mar ía José Aladrén Hernando Trujillo Dolores Redondo-Pach ón Ver ónica López Carme Facundo Florentino Villanego Marisa Rodr íguez Maria Carmen Ruiz Paula Ant ón Alba Rivas-Oural Sheila C Source Type: research
