Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems scrambled to modify patient care processes—particularly when it came to strategies aimed at reducing the risk of hospital-related complications. A look at how one hospital ...
May 7, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Giving birth during the coronavirus pandemic presents its own challenges, but the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) wants to reassure pregnant women that they need not panic.
May 4, 2021
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New York nurses caring for COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic experienced anxiety, depression, and illness—but steps their hospitals took to protect them and support from their coworkers helped buffer ...
Apr 29, 2021
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More than 500 health workers have died in Venezuela since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a nongovernmental organization said Monday.
Apr 27, 2021
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Stress and burnout among healthcare workers is a global crisis that predates the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies done before the pandemic showed that many healthcare workers around the world were experiencing high levels of stress ...
Apr 27, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things about how health care is delivered. Indeed, it has produced many innovations that show significant promise.
Apr 16, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Doctors, nurses and other frontline health workers in U.S. emergency departments have struggled with significant mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new poll reveals.
Apr 9, 2021
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At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In an ideal scenario, the virus would then be contained ...
Apr 6, 2021
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By April last year, up to 28 free-standing alternate care sites ranging in size from 50 to 3,000 beds were underway or finished in the U.S.—the Michigan Medicine Field Hospital among them.
Mar 31, 2021
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Markers of the pandemic's impact—testing rates, positivity ratio (cases among total tests), case rates by overall population and deaths—are clustered in neighborhoods, with low-income and predominantly minority communities ...
Mar 30, 2021
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