PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in reduced blood donations and transfusions in some months during 2020 but only a minimal annualized decline compared with 2019.

CONCLUSIONS: A sudden shift in data impacts model performance. Re-training the model with updated data may cause degradation in predictive accuracy if the changes are only transient. Too early re-training should therefore be avoided, and close model

Identifying systems failures and contributing to a safety culture is the Association of American Colleges (AAMC's) thirteenth Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA). While most curricula teach Patient Safety (PS) and Quality Improvement (QI)

BACKGROUND: The SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2 lineage) variant was first identified at the end of 2020 and possessed two unique amino acid substitutions in its spike protein: S-P681R, at the S1/S2 cleavage site, and S-D950N, in the HR1 of the S2

CONCLUSION: Perioperative COVID was associated with a dramatic increase in adverse events. However, quality benchmarking minimally affected. This may be the result of low overall COVID rates or balance in rates established across hospitals over the 1

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The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has had a devastating effect, globally. We describe, for the first time, the occurrence of carbapenem-resistant bacteria colonizing SARS-CoV-2 patients who developed

CONCLUSION: Among SC residents, COVID-19 was not associated with CKD independent from indicators of the severity of illness, especially AKI diagnosis. Kidney-specific follow-up testing may be reserved for those high-risk for CKD development. Further

CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest multimedia education using the HBM to COVID-19 preventive behaviors among pregnant women can benefit behavior change.

CONCLUSIONS: The results show that lockdowns led most participants to increase smoking/vaping, whereas a decrease or cessation of smoking/vaping was only reported in the minority of participants. Attention should be given to the non-communicable