PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

The global coronavirus disease (COVID) -19 pandemic has led to a rapid transformation in the ways in which outpatient care is delivered. The need to minimise the risk of viral infection and transmission through social distancing resulted in the

CONCLUSION: In conclusion, the TMA Procleix SARS-CoV-2 assay performed well for the qualitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a multisite clinical setting. This novel TMA assay demonstrated a greater sensitivity in comparison to RT-PCR methods for

We measured rates of hospital admissions for mental health disorders and self-poisoning during the pandemic in patients without COVID-19, compared to those admitted before the pandemic. Data were collected from 01/04/2019 to 31/03/2021, including the

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CONCLUSION: Telephone consultations appear effective, convenient and popular in prespecified subgroups of neurological outpatients. Further work comparing telephone, video and face-to-face consultations across multiple centres is now needed.

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CONCLUSIONS: Advancing evidence-based medicine through pragmatic RCTs will require anticipating and addressing experiment aversion among both patients and healthcare professionals.

Alveolar macrophages (AMs) are unique lung resident cells that contact airborne pathogens and environmental particulates. The contribution of human AMs (HAM) to pulmonary diseases remains poorly understood due to difficulty in accessing them from

The expected number of secondary infections arising from each index case, referred to as the reproduction or R number, is a vital summary statistic for understanding and managing epidemic diseases. There are many methods for estimating R