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Assessing the potential impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy
Background The COVID-19 virus pandemic has caused a significant number of deaths worldwide. If the prevalence of the infection continues to grow, this could impact life expectancy. This paper provides first estimates of the potential direct impact of…
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Choosing Evolution over Extinction: Integrating Direct Patient Care Services and Value-Based Payment Models into the Community-Based Pharmacy Setting
The American healthcare payment model introduced Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) into a position of power that currently puts into question the state of the pharmacy profession, especially in the community field. Reimbursement plans had been…
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Impacto de la pandemia por Covid-19 en adultos mayores con demencia y sus cuidadores
El cuidado de una persona con demencia resulta habitualmente un desafío en sí mismo, pero en el contexto de una pandemia muchas de las dificultades se acrecientan. La ruptura de la continuidad de las actividades por la cuarentena y la ausencia de…
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Ad-hoc group consensus recommendations on the evaluation and quality control of molecular and serological diagnostics tests for SARS CoV-2 human infection
A consensus working group formulates recommendations on the criteria to evaluate the diagnostic performance (size and criteria of selection of samples to determine sensitivity, analytical specificity, criteria for limit of detection, criteria for…
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The Battle Against COVID-19 in Jordan: An Early Overview of the Jordanian Experience
Since the initial spark of the COVID-19 outbreak in December 2019, which was later declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be a global pandemic, all affected countries are implementing various preventive and control measures to mitigate…
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Efeitos de um programa de telerreabilitação sobre a qualidade de vida de pessoas com Doença de Parkinson, durante o isolamento social na pandemia da COVID-19
Restrições impostas pela pandemia de COVID-19 limitaram o acesso de pessoas com Doença de Parkinson(DP) à realização de exercícios. A telerreabilitação é uma estratégia que pode restaurar esse acesso. O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar os efeitos de um…
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Is the COVID-19 Pandemic a Good Time to Include <i>Aspergillus</i> Molecular Detection to Categorize Aspergillosis in ICU Patients? A Monocentric Experience
(1) Background: The diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in an intensive care unit (ICU)remains a challenge and the COVID-19 epidemic makes it even harder. Here, we evaluatedAspergillus PCR input to help classifying IA in SARS-CoV-2-infected…
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Leer los hospitales en tiempos de pandemia: el profesional sanitario, protagonista de excepción
Los últimos meses hemos vivido una circunstancia de excepción en nuestro país ante la pandemia provocada por la COVID-19. Ha sido un tiempo de profunda preocupación que nos ha mantenido sobrecogidos ante las cifras de afectados y fallecidos, sin…
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Hyponatremia in Infectious Diseases—A Literature Review
Hyponatremia is one of the most common water–electrolyte imbalances in the human organism. A serum sodium concentration threshold of less than 135 mmol/L is diagnostic for hyponatremia. The disorder is usually secondary to various diseases, including…
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Cardiac tamponade and intracranial hemorrhage in a COVID-19 pediatric patient: Case Report
The new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is actually a pandemic according to the World Health Organization. It affects both the adult and pediatric population, however the most published information correspond to the first one, generating a knowledge…
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