Browsing Technical documents and research evidence on COVID-19 by Title
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Risk factors and prognosis for COVID-19-induced acute kidney injury: a meta-analysis
(2020-11-10)Objective: To analyse the incidence, risk factors and impact of acute kidney injury (AKI) on the prognosis of patients with COVID-19. Design: Meta-analysis. Data sources: PubMed, Embase, CNKI and MedRxiv of Systematic ... -
Risk factors for severity and mortality in adult COVID-19 inpatients in Wuhan
(2020)Background: In December 2019, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak occurred in Wuhan. Data on the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with severe COVID-19 are limited. Objective: We sought to ... -
Risk factors of COVID-19 mortality: a systematic review of current literature and lessons from recent retracted articles
(2020-12-01)OBJECTIVE: Recently, two influential articles that reported the association of (hydroxy)chloroquine or angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality were retracted due to ... -
Risk Factors of Healthcare Workers with Corona Virus Disease 2019: A Retrospective Cohort Study in a Designated Hospital of Wuhan in China
(2020-03-17)Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) originated in Wuhan, China has caused many healthcare workers (HCWs) infected. Seventy-two HCWs manifested with acute respiratory illness were retrospectively enrolled to analyze the ... -
Risk mitigation tool for child and youth settings operating during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2020-06-01)Objective: This tool will assist school boards and operators of child and youth settings in considering risks to children/youth, staff and volunteers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and provide examples ... -
Risk mitigation tool for gatherings and events operating during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2020-06-19)Objective: This tool will assist individuals, groups, or organizations, representing diverse groups based on gender, ethnicity/culture, and other socio-economic and demographic factors, in considering risks related to ... -
Risk mitigation tool for outdoor recreation spaces and activities operating during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2020-06-26)Objective: This tool will assist in considering risks associated with the use of parks and outdoor recreational spaces during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and provide examples of strategies that may be ... -
Risk Stratification for Healthcare workers during the CoViD-19 Pandemic; using demographics, co-morbid disease and clinical domain in order to assign clinical duties
(2020-05-09)Background: Healthcare workers have a greater exposure to individuals with confirmed SARS-novel coronavirus 2, and thus a higher probability of contracting corona virus disease (CoViD)-19, than the general population. It ... -
Risks to Children under-five in India from COVID-19
(2020-05-22)Objective: The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has rapidly emerged to become a global pandemic and is known to cause a high risk to patients over the age of 70 and those with co-morbidities, such as hypertension and diabetes. ... -
A robust method for the rapid generation of recombinant Zika virus expressing the GFP reporter gene
(2016-07)Zika virus (ZIKV) infection is a major public health problem with severe human congenital and neurological anomalies. The screening of anti-ZIKV compounds and neutralizing antibodies needs reliable and rapid virus-based ... -
Role of adjunctive treatment strategies in COVID-19 and a review of international and national clinical guidelines
(2020-05-05)The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a global struggle to cope with the sheer numbers of infected persons, many of whom require intensive care support or eventually succumb to the illness. The outbreak ... -
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques: Race for COVID-19 Vaccine
(2020-04-17)Context: In the healthcare system, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a productive tool. There are instances where AI has done marvels in the diagnosis of various health conditions and the interpretation of complex ... -
The role of asymptomatic class, quarantine and isolation in the transmission of COVID-19
(2020-06-05)We formulate a deterministic epidemic model for the spread of Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19). We have included asymptomatic, quarantine and isolation compartments in the model, as studies have stressed upon the importance ... -
The role of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: rapid living systematic review and meta-analysis
(2020-05-24)OBJECTIVE To address three questions: 1. amongst people who become infected with SARS-CoV-2, what proportion does not experience symptoms at all during their infection? 2. Amongst people with SARS-CoV-2 infection who are ... -
Role of corticosteroid in the management of COVID-19: A systemic review and a Clinician’s perspective
(2020-06-27)Background and aims: Interest in corticosteroid therapy in COVID-19 has been rekindled after the results from Randomized Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY (RECOVERY) Trial. However, the World health Organization has not ... -
The role of corticosteroids in the management of critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A meta-analysis
(2020-04-22)Objective: There are no controlled studies on the role of systemic corticosteroids (CS) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In the absence of high-quality evidence, understandably the recommendations from ... -
The role of host genetics in susceptibility to severe viral infections in humans and insights into host genetics of severe COVID-19: A systematic review
(2020-11)Background: Susceptibility to severe viral infections was reported to be associated with genetic variants in immune response genes using case reports and GWAS studies. SARS-CoV-2 is an emergent viral disease that caused ... -
The role of imaging in 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19)
(2020-04-15)Almost the entire world, not only China, is currently experiencing the outbreak of a novel coronavirus that causes respiratory disease, severe pneumonia, and even death. The outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December of ...