Patient Safety & Quality
Review: Minimizing SARS-CoV-2 Exposure When Performing Surgical Interventions
28 May, 2020 | 09:42h | UTC
“Is It Safe for Me to Go to Work?” Risk Stratification for Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic
27 May, 2020 | 02:39h | UTC
CDC Updated Guidance: When You Can be Around Others After You Had or Likely Had COVID-19
27 May, 2020 | 02:37h | UTC“I think or know I had COVID-19, and I had symptoms.”
You can be with others after:
- 3 days with no fever AND
- Symptoms improved AND
- 10 days since symptoms first appeared”
Perspective: In Pandemic, Many Seeing Upsides to Telemedicine
26 May, 2020 | 09:52h | UTCPart I: In pandemic, many seeing upsides to telemedicine – CIDRAP
Part II: COVID-19 reveals telehealth barriers, solutions – CIDRAP
Detailed Report into a Nosocomial Outbreak of COVID-19 in a South African Hospital
26 May, 2020 | 09:38h | UTCOriginal Study: Report into a nosocomial outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at Netcare St. Augustine’s Hospital
Related Commentary on Twitter
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1264922133722886144
Choosing Wisely in the COVID-19 Era: Preventing Harm to Healthcare Workers
22 May, 2020 | 04:58h | UTC
Opinion: Revisiting the No Visitors Policy
22 May, 2020 | 04:43h | UTCRevisiting the No Visitors Policy – CMAJ Blogs
“I follow the policy, as I must, but neither my heart nor my mind believe that the harm we aim to prevent with current no visitors edicts outweighs the harm we are causing.”
Opinion: Calling Health Care Workers ‘Heroes’ Harms all of Us
22 May, 2020 | 04:41h | UTCCalling health care workers ‘heroes’ harms all of us – STAT
Systematic Review: Early Warning Scores for Detecting Deterioration in Adult Hospital Patients
22 May, 2020 | 04:34h | UTC
Rate of Diagnostic Errors and Related Harms for Major Vascular Events, Infections, and Cancers
21 May, 2020 | 09:14h | UTCCommentary: Misdiagnoses Common, With Permanent Disability, Death for Many – Medscape (free registration required)
Reducing the Risk of Diagnostic Error in the COVID-19 Era
20 May, 2020 | 09:57h | UTCReducing the Risk of Diagnostic Error in the COVID-19 Era – Journal of Hospital Medicine
Video: Personal Protective Equipment and Covid-19
20 May, 2020 | 09:55h | UTCPersonal Protective Equipment and Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine
Cardiac Surgery during the COVID‐19 Pandemic
19 May, 2020 | 04:17h | UTC
Resuming Elective Orthopedic Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
19 May, 2020 | 04:15h | UTC
Randomized Trial: Graduated Compression Stockings in Elective Surgical Patients
18 May, 2020 | 01:41h | UTCCommentaries: Graduated compression stockings on trial – The BMJ Opinion AND Compression stockings might not be needed to prevent blood clots after surgery – The British Medical Journal
Study: Airborne Lifetime of Small Speech Droplets and their Potential Importance in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
15 May, 2020 | 03:43h | UTCCommentaries: Expert reaction to study looking at speech-generated droplets and COVID-19 transmission – Science Media Centre AND Loud Talking Can Spread More than 1,000 Coronavirus Particles in the Air for 14 Minutes: Study – The Science Times AND Simply talking in confined spaces may be enough to spread the coronavirus, researchers say – USA Today AND Loud talking could leave coronavirus in the air for up to 14 minutes – MIT Technology Review
Preventing a Parallel Pandemic — A National Strategy to Protect Clinicians’ Well-Being
15 May, 2020 | 03:39h | UTCRelated: The Covid-19 Crisis too Few are Talking About: Health Care Workers’ Mental Health (commentaries on the subject)
Summary of International Recommendations in 23 Languages for Patients with Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic
15 May, 2020 | 03:29h | UTCRelated: ESMO Guidelines: Cancer Patient Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic (guidelines on the subject)
Virtual Care: New Models of Caring for Our Patients and Workforce
14 May, 2020 | 09:58h | UTCVirtual care: new models of caring for our patients and workforce – The Lancet Digital Health
Randomized Trial: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery at Cesarean Delivery to Reduce Postoperative Length of Stay
14 May, 2020 | 02:29h | UTCRelated Study (just published): A Randomized Controlled Trial of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Versus Standard of Care Recovery for Emergency Cesarean Deliveries at Mbarara Hospital, Uganda – Anesthesia & Analgesia
See also: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Cesarean Delivery (guidelines on the subject)
A Pandemic Benefit: The Expansion of Telemedicine
13 May, 2020 | 02:00h | UTCA Pandemic Benefit: The Expansion of Telemedicine – The New York Times
Related: COVID-19: Rapidly Converting to “Virtual Practices” (several commentaries on the subject) AND A digital embrace to blunt the curve of COVID19 pandemic – npj Digital Medicine
Allocating Scarce Resources and Triaging Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic
13 May, 2020 | 01:55h | UTC
Updated WHO Guidance: Considerations for Public Health and Social Measures in the Workplace in the Context of COVID-19
12 May, 2020 | 03:34h | UTC
Related Commentary on Twitter
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1259874331523518464
Perspective: “Do Not Stay at Home: We Are Ready for You”
11 May, 2020 | 00:40h | UTCDo Not Stay at Home: We Are Ready for You – NEJM Catalyst
“We must never lose sight of all the other patients who need our care today. Patients with any symptom indicating an emergency or severe disease must NOT stay at home.”
AGS Position Statement: Resource Allocation Strategies and Age‐Related Considerations in the COVID‐19 Era
7 May, 2020 | 09:24h | UTCNews Release: Position statement addresses difficult issue: allocating scare resources in COVID-19 era – American Geriatrics Society
“Age should never be used as a means for categorically excluding someone from what is ordinarily the standard of care, nor should age “cut-offs” be used in allocation strategies.”