Worcestershire Health Libraries: Latest COVID-19 Research & Evidence — 15/07/20

Worcestershire Health Libraries: 

Latest COVID-19 Research & Evidence — 15/07/20

Research

 

Title: Improving the care of older patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Description: The authors explore appropriate care for older, frail and multi-morbid patients in different settings of care - and the management of geriatric syndromes (e.g. delirium and sarcopenia).

Available from: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40520-020-01641-w.pdf

 

Title: Scoping Report on Hospital and Health Care Acquisition of COVID-19 and its Control

Description: This scoping report provides an outline of the considerations needed in building a robust surveillance and response system to prevent future hospital acquired COVID-19 outbreaks.

Available from: https://rs-delve.github.io/reports/2020/07/06/nosocomial-scoping-report.html

 

Title: Evaluation of COVID 19 infection in 279 cancer patients treated during a 90-day period in 2020 pandemic

Description: The aim of this study was to investigate COVID-19 disease and its outcome in cancer patients who needed treatment.

Available from: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10147-020-01734-6.pdf

 

Guidelines

 

Title: Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: implications for infection prevention precautions (update)

Description: An overview of the modes of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, what is known about when infected people transmit the virus, and implications for infection prevention and control precautions.

Available from: https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/transmissio...

 

Title: The management of ADULT cardiac arrest patients taken to Emergency Departments (EDs) during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Description: A shared framework for ambulance clinicians and ED senior clinicians.

Available from: https://www.rcem.ac.uk/docs/RCEM Guidance/RCEM_NASMeD_ad...

 

Expert Opinions

 

Title: How does local lockdown work, and is it effective?

Description: This briefing explores the practical meaning of a local lockdown, triggers, whether or not it works, and whether or not other areas could be next.

Available from: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/370/bmj.m2679.full.pdf

 

Title: Face masks can be devastating for people with hearing loss

Description: In this editorial, the authors assert that innovation is urgently needed in order to ensure clear         communication in medical settings.

Available from: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/370/bmj.m2683.full.pdf

 

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Latest COVID-19 Research & Evidence — 01/07/20

Research

Title: The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Technology Adoption in Healthcare

Description: This article explores the adoption and growth of technology tools including; telehealth, artificial       intelligence, and robotics over the first 90 days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2020.06.008

Title: COVID-19 in patients with rheumatic diseases in northern Italy

Description: This study aimed to analyse the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with rheumatic and       musculoskeletal diseases living in a district of Lombardy with a high prevalence of COVID-19.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2665-9913(20)30169-7

Title: Up and about: Older adults’ wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Swedish longitudinal study

Description: Annual changes in four aspects of wellbeing over five years (2015–2020) were analysed: life            satisfaction, financial satisfaction, self-rated health, and loneliness—in a sample of 1071 adults aged 60-71.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa084

Guidelines

Title: Criteria for releasing COVID-19 patients from isolation

Description: This scientific brief examines current evidence on the risks of transmission of COVID-19 from an       infected mother-to-baby through breastfeeding as well as evidence on risks to child health from not breastfeeding.

Available from: https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/breastfeeding-and-covid-19

Title: Vitamin D for COVID-19

Description: This evidence summary sets out the best available evidence on vitamin D for preventing or treating COVID-19, or for the susceptibility to COVID-19 based on vitamin D status.

Available from: https://www.nice.org.uk/advice/es28/chapter/Key-messages

Expert Opinions

Title: How should surgeons obtain consent during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Description: Now that hospitals are resuming elective surgery, this opinion piece explores what surgeons should tell patients about the perioperative risks of COVID-19.

Available from: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/06/24/how-should...

Title: Covid-19 antibody tests: a briefing

Description: Antibody tests are a potentially useful tool in the pandemic response—but what are they, how do they work, and are they all the same? Chris Baraniuk explains.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2284

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