PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Patients diagnosed with melanoma in 2020 tended to have thicker, more ulcerated, and more advanced tumors, but this was not associated with survival. Further studies are needed to characterize outcomes for patients

BACKGROUND: Telehealth involves real-time communication (telephone or video-call) between patients and health providers. The COVID-19 pandemic propelled general practitioners to conduct most consultations remotely, seeing patients face-to-face only

CONCLUSION: Continuous molecular epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Sabah will provide a deeper understanding of the emergence and dominance of each variant in the locality, thus facilitating public health intervention measures.

CONCLUSION: In the first 14 months of the pandemic, the frequency of common elements of chronic condition care did not notably change overall or among higher-risk patients.

CONCLUSIONS: TTS increased between 2004 and 2019, with NAC affected more. However, despite longer wait times, short-term survival increased significantly. Very short (15 days) and very long (>75 days) TTS were associated with increased mortality risk

BACKGROUND: Studies in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with refractory hypoxaemia suggest that inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) can be added to ventilatory strategies as a potential bridge to clinical improvement. However

The article compares the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change in terms of natural characteristics of the crisis triggers as well as of socio-political responses.

The increasing morbidity and mortality of life-threatening Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in immunocompromised people poses a global concern, prompting the World Health Organization to list it as one of the 19 priority invasive fungal diseases, calling

CONCLUSION: Conducting a situational analysis is crucial for understanding the current state of interventions and identifying opportunities for new interventions. The multi-component methodology used in two African countries was found to be feasible

CONCLUSION: Overall Stroke care delivery had no major disruptions despite COVID 19 pandemic posed challenges to MSU Operations.