PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused changes in surgical practice. For acute appendicitis (AA), measures to control the pandemic might hinder patients from seeking medical care timely, resulting in increasing severity

CONCLUSION: Effective treatment of Candida albicans liver abscess requires early detection, percutaneous catheter drainage, and 5 wk of antifungal therapy. Meanwhile, complications such as COVID-19 should be actively managed and nutritional support

Despite the important role of problem-solving in organizations, our understanding of the fundamental nature of problems is limited. To generate insights and discussion on this topic, we introduce the metaphor of a "virus-like" problem, which is a

Covid-19 heralded a natural experiment with telemedicine. My experience as a clinician was very positive, and learning how to use telemedicine has made me a better doctor. Telemedicine has flipped the medical service paradigm; families do not need to

CONCLUSIONS: Use of dapagliflozin prior to SARS-CoV-2 infection was not associated with an increased risk of hospitalization, ICU admission, mortality or progression to severe COVID-19. However, it was associated with an increased risk of

Because SARS-CoV-2 constantly mutates to escape from the immune response, there is a reduction of neutralizing capacity of antibodies initially targeting the historical strain against emerging Variants of Concerns (VoC)s. That is why the measure of

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this randomized clinical trial, compared with the SLV, the PLR did not produce statistically significant findings in terms of understanding scores. Youths ranked it higher in terms of accessibility, usability, and

A 16-year-old girl with fever that appeared after taking the second COVID-19 vaccine presented to the clinic with a serum creatinine of 0.89 mg/dL and C-reactive protein of 6.9 mg/dL. She had proteinuria and microscopic hematuria, with slowly

CONCLUSION: The findings highlighted that physiotherapists identified a patient's health literacy abilities by picking up tacit clues throughout their consultations and they pre-dominantly viewed health literacy as the ability to read, write and

CONCLUSION: A combination of patient, primary care and community-level factors led to an overall persistent decrease in COPD admissions following the COVID-19 lockdown. Future targeted and individualised measures focusing on these modifiable factors