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A Positive Attitude to Negate a False Positive Test Result: An Intern’s Experience with COVID-19

International Journal of Medical Students, 2020
I recount my experience as an intern in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the COVID-19 pandemic. I received a patient who was presumed to have COVID and was isolated. The first test result was a false positive, so I was discharged.
Vanessa N. Youmbi
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Should I stay or should I go? Patient understandings of and responses to source-isolation practices, [PDF]

, 2015
Isolation of patients, who are colonised or infected with a multidrug-resistant organism (source-isolation), is a common practice in most acute health-care settings, to prevent transmission to other patients.
Jorm, C, Gilbert, Gwendolyn L, O\u27Sullivan, Matthew V.N., Christine Jorm, Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Armstrong, G, Hor, S-Y, Hooker, C, Debra Jackson, Hughes, C, Hor, Su-Yin, Jackson, Debra, Rick Iedema, Mary Wyer, Iedema, R, O'Sullivan, M, Claire Hooker, Armstrong, Gary, Iedema, Rick, Gwendolyn Gilbert, Hughes, Clarissa, Matthew V.N. O'Sullivan, Clarissa Hughes, Wyer, M, Matthew O'Sullivan, Hooker, Claire, Jackson, D, Wyer, Mary, Gary Armstrong, Gilbert, GL, Jorm, Christine, Su-Yin Hor   +31 more
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Analysis of Facility and Home Isolation Strategies in COVID 19 Pandemic: Evidences from Jodhpur, India

Infection and Drug Resistance, 2021
Pankaj Bhardwaj,1 Nitin Kumar Joshi,1 Manoj Kumar Gupta,1 Akhil Dhanesh Goel,1 Suman Saurabh,1 Jaykaran Charan,2 Prakash Rajpurohit,3 Suresh Ola,4 Pritam Singh,5 Sunil Bisht,5 NR Bishnoi,6 Balwant Manda,5 Kuldeep Singh,7 Sanjeev Misra8 1Community ...
Bhardwaj P, Joshi NK, Gupta MK, Goel AD, Saurabh S, Charan J, Rajpurohit P, Ola S, Singh P, Bisht S, Bishnoi NR, Manda B, Singh K, Misra S   +13 more
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The effect of isolation precautions on care processes and medical outcomes in patients colonized with MRSA

GMS Hygiene and Infection Control, 2019
Background: Isolation precautions used in methicillin-resistant (MRSA) infection control are effective in inhibiting pathogen transmission, but may cause unintended consequences in medical care.
Labus, David, Weinhold, Leonie, Heller, Joerg   +2 more
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Technology about me without me: An examination of the relationship between patient-facing technology and patient experience [PDF]

, 2022
To appreciate the role of electronic health records (EHRs) in achieving the goals of patient-centered care, scholars have focused primarily on the influence of EHR capabilities on clinical providers’ behaviors.
Haun, Courtney N, PhD, MPH, Silvera, Geoffrey A, PhD, MHA   +1 more
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Impact of negative-pressure room utilization in the emergency department on hospitalized pneumonia patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand [PDF]

Acute and Critical Care
Background During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, negative-pressure rooms were implemented to isolate high-risk COVID-19 patients. This study compared pneumonia patient outcomes before and after their implementation, focusing on in ...
Teeravit Danrungrot, Theerapon Tangsuwanaruk, Wachira Wongtanasarasin, Borwon Wittayachamnankul   +3 more
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The resistant pattern of some bacteria isolates with respect to patient location, year of isolation, patient gender, and specimen type.

, 2022
The resistant pattern of some bacteria isolates with respect to patient location, year of isolation, patient gender, and specimen type.
Christopher Newton Phiri (13794158), Warren Chanda (8173419), Kingsley Kamvuma (6471995), Thresa N. Mwansa (13794152), John Amos Mulemena (13794155)   +4 more
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Challenges and Potential Solutions for Patient Safety in an Infectious-Agent-Isolation Environment: A Study of 484 COVID-19-Related Event Reports Across 94 Hospitals

, 2021
Previous research has shown that patients in infectious-agent isolation are at greater risk for certain types of safety-related events. We conducted a study to explore the relationship between the various types of events that occur in an isolation ...
Matthew A. Taylor, Rebecca Jones, Catherine M. Reynolds, Matthew Taylor, Catherine Reynolds   +4 more
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Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas in Children and Adolescents: Expert Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPN) is a rare low‐grade malignant exocrine pancreatic tumor, mostly discovered during the second decade of life in females, with a very good prognosis, provided microscopically complete surgical excision is achieved.
Sabine Irtan, Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almarez, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Maja Cesen, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Louise Galmiche, Jorg Fuchs, Sarah Braungart, Bilgehan Yalcin, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +18 more
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Aeromedical Transfer of Patients with Viral Hemorrhagic Fever

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019
For >40 years, the British Royal Air Force has maintained an aeromedical evacuation facility, the Deployable Air Isolator Team (DAIT), to transport patients with possible or confirmed highly infectious diseases to the United Kingdom. Since 2012, the DAIT,
Edward D. Nicol, Stephen Mepham, Jonathan Naylor, Ian Mollan, Matthew Adam, Joanna d’Arcy, Philip Gillen, Emma Vincent, Belinda Mollan, David Mulvaney, Andrew Green, Michael Jacobs   +11 more
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