Library & Knowledge Service – Latest COVID-19 Research

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Latest COVID-19 Research —31/03/20

Original Research

Title: Covid-19 Outbreak at a Long-Term Care Facility

Description: Long-term care facilities are high-risk settings for severe outcomes from outbreaks of Covid-19, owing to advanced age, chronic underlying health conditions, and movement of health care personnel among facilities.

Available from: https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2005412?articleTools=true

Title: The effect of control strategies to reduce social mixing on outcomes of the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan, China: a modelling study

Description: Estimation of the effects of social distancing measures on the progression of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2468-2667%2820%2930073-6

Title: Epidemiological, clinical and virological characteristics of 74 cases of coronavirus-infected disease 2019 (COVID-19) with gastrointestinal symptoms

Description: Analysis of epidemiological, demographic, clinical, laboratory, management and outcome data.

Available from: https://gut.bmj.com/content/gutjnl/early/2020/03/24/gutjnl-2020-320926.full.pdf

Title: COVID-19: investigation and initial clinical management of possible cases (Updated)

Description: Information on case definitions, and the initial assessment and investigation of possible cases of  COVID-19 infection.

Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-i...

Guidelines

Title: Can social prescribing support the COVID-19 pandemic?

Description: Social prescribing is the use of ‘community assets’ (e.g. local organisations, charities, events, groups) to address ‘non-medical’ challenges (e.g. isolation) that can affect how people feel physically and psychologically.

Available from: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/can-social-prescribing-support-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Title: A midpoint perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic

Description: The authors describe several key experiences and lessons learnt during the early course of the         outbreak—including its characteristics, public risk communications, and outbreak control.

Available from: http://www.smj.org.sg/sites/default/files/CO-2020-086-epub.pdf

Expert Opinions

Title: Protecting healthcare personnel from 2019-nVoV infection risks: lessons and suggestions

Description: Based on a literature search and healthcare personnel (HCP) interviews, the authors summarise    effective measures taken to reduce infection among HCP.

Available from: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11684-020-0765-x.pdf

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Worcestershire Health Libraries Coronavirus Bulletin - 26/03/20

                                           

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Coronavirus Bulletin—26/03/20

Original Research

Title: A comparative study on the clinical features of COVID-19 pneumonia to other pneumonias

Description: Nineteen 2019-nCoV pneumonia and fifteen other pneumonia patients were compared. Demographic, epidemiological, clinical, and radiological features from those patients were analysed.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa247

Title: A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers

Description: Hospital wards were randomised to: medical masks, cloth masks or a control group (usual practice, which included mask wearing). Participants used the mask on every

Title: Clinical features and obstetric and neonatal outcomes of pregnant patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Description: Clinical features, treatments, and maternal and foetal outcomes were assessed in all pregnant women with COVID-19 admitted to a Chinese hospital.

Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30176-6/fulltext

Guidelines

Title: Infection prevention and control during health care when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected

Description: This guidance is intended for healthcare workers (HCWs), healthcare managers and IPC teams at the facility level—and is also relevant at the national and district/provincial level.

Available from: https://www.who.int/publications-detail/infection-prevention-and-control-during-health...

Title: Are there any evidence-based ways of assessing dyspnoea (breathlessness) by telephone or video?

Description: There does not appear to be a validated tool to assess breathlessness over the telephone or by video. Clinical judgement, through careful history taking and questioning, may currently be the best available method.

Available from: https://www.cebm.net/are-there-any-evidence-based-ways-of-assessing-dyspnoea...

Expert Opinions

Title: The life and death decisions of covid-19

Description: If the NHS’s intensive care capacity is breached, how do we decide which patients should get priority? Daniel Sokol—medical ethicist and barrister—considers the various ethical arguments

Available from: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/20/daniel-sokol-the-life-and-death-decisions-of-covid-19/

Title: Patients with mental health disorders in the COVID-19 epidemic

Description: The author considers how ignorance of the differential impact of the epidemic on those with mental health disorders will also augment already existing health inequalities.

Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30090-0/fulltext

 

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