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Telemedicine use and outcomes after transient ischemic attack and minor stroke during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based cohort study
CMAJ Open. 2022 Oct 4;10(4):E865-E871. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20220027. Print 2022 Oct-Dec.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in telemedicine use. We compared care and outcomes in patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor ischemic stroke before and after the widespread adoption of telemedicine in Ontario, Canada, in 2020.METHODS: In a population-based cohort study using linked administrative data, we identified patients with TIA or ischemic stroke discharged from any emergency department in Ontario before the widespread use of telemedicine (Apr. 1, 2015, to Mar. 31, 2020) and after (A...
Source: cmaj - October 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Amy Y X Yu Jeremy Penn Peter C Austin Douglas S Lee Joan Porter Jiming Fang Donald A Redelmeier Moira K Kapral Source Type: research

Clinical characteristics, multiorgan dysfunction and outcomes of patients with COVID-19: a prospective case series
This study provides further evidence that COVID-19 is a multisystem disease involving neurologic, cardiac and thrombotic dysfunction, without evidence of hepatic dysfunction. Patients have persistent organ dysfunction after hospital discharge, underscoring the need for research on long-term outcomes of COVID-19 survivors.PMID:35853662 | DOI:10.9778/cmajo.20210151
Source: cmaj - July 19, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kimia Honarmand Kyle Fiorini Debarati Chakraborty Daniel Gillett Karishma Desai Claudio Martin Karen J Bosma Marat Slessarev Ian M Ball Tina Mele Danielle LeBlanc Sameer Elsayed Alejandro Lazo-Langner Mike J Nicholson Robert Arntfield John Basmaji Source Type: research