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Nosocomial outbreak of COVID-19 in an internal medicine ward: Probable airborne transmission
(2022-12)
Background and objectives: Despite the increasing evidence supporting the importance of airborne transmission in SARS-CoV-2 infection, it has not been considered relevant in the vast majority of reported nosocomial outbreaks ...
Risk Factors for COVID-19 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A National, ENEIDA-Based Case-Control Study (COVID-19-EII)
(2022-12-19)
(1) Scant information is available concerning the characteristics that may favour the acquisition of COVID-19 in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess these differences ...
Low Resilience Was a Risk Factor of Mental Health Problems during the COVID-19 Pandemic but Not in Individuals Exposed to COVID-19: A Cohort Study in Spanish Adult General Population
(2022-11-21)
Background: The aim is to analyze whether people with low resilience are at higher risk of mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spanish adults.
Methods: a longitudinal cohort study was carried out. ...
Use of failure-to-rescue after emergency surgery as a dynamic indicator of hospital resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multicenter retrospective propensity score-matched cohort study
(2022-10)
Background: Surgical failure-to-rescue (FTR, death rate following complications) is a reliable cross-sectional quality of care marker, but has not been evaluated dynamically. We aimed to study changes in FTR following ...
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and SARS-CoV-2 variants: a two-year ambispective multicentric cohort study in Catalonia, Spain
(2023-04)
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare but severe disease temporarily related to SARS-CoV-2. We aimed to describe the epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory findings of all MIS-C cases diagnosed ...
Management of Allergic Diseases During COVID-19 Outbreak
(2021-02-09)
Purpose of review: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged healthcare system capacities and safety for health care workers, reshaping doctor-patient interaction favoring e-Health or telemedicine. The pandemic ...
COVID-19 severity and mortality in patients with CLL: an update of the international ERIC and Campus CLL study
(2021-12)
Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) may be more susceptible to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to age, disease, and treatment-related immunosuppression. We aimed to assess risk factors of outcome and ...
COVID-19 as a turning point in the need for specialized units for the sense of smell
(2023-01-17)
The high prevalence of olfactory dysfunction (OD) by SARS-CoV-2 has revealed
the lack of specialized units [1,2].
The main objective is to know the new olfactory units (OU) since the COVID-19
pandemic, and to evaluate ...