PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

CONCLUSION: COPD-related mortality increased at the beginning of the pandemic, due to deaths from COVID-19. The start of the vaccination campaign was associated with an important decline in COPD-related mortality, especially among the elderly, who

CONCLUSION: To ensure the best possible outcomes for COVID-19 patients, it is essential to take a multidisciplinary approach involving providing supportive care, treating the underlying infection, managing dysfunction, monitoring for complications

The present study aimed to describe the clinical, epidemiological and laboratory characteristics of invasive candidiasis by C. parapsilosis complex (CPC) in a Brazilian tertiary pediatric hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical samples were

CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight the importance of cause-specific phenotyping for COVID-19 hospitalizations. More generally, this work demonstrates the utility of natural language processing approaches for deriving information related to patient

CONCLUSIONS: Age, congestive heart failure, obesity, COPD, prior stroke, and increased concentration of urea, LDH, CRP, IL-6, troponin I, ALT to AST ratio were identified to be the predictors for in-hospital mortality of COVID-19 patients.

Sudden cardiac arrest, particularly out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), is a global public health concern. However, limited research exists on the epidemiology of OHCAs occurring in public places, trends and impact of bystander intervention, and

CONCLUSION: The results show that multishearlets can neutralize the effect of noise in MRA images in a good way rather than shearlets. Moreover, the proposed scheme for segmentation can lead to 0.99 accuracy.

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The results of this cohort study of HCAHPS-participating hospitals found that patient experience scores declined during 2020 to 2021. By Q4/2021, the HCAHPS-SS was 3.6 pp lower than would have been expected, a medium effect

CONCLUSION: The emergency declaration declined the exercise tolerance in patients on phase III CR but improved to pre- declaration levels over time, but more likely declined in patients with multiple comorbidities during pre-declaration and those

Candida auris is an opportunistic human pathogen that has rapidly spread to multiple countries and continents and has been associated with a high number of nosocomial outbreaks. Herein, we report the first case of C. auris in Portugal, which was