Rapid Point-Of-Care Serology and Clinical History Assessment Increase Protection Provided by RT-PCR Screening: A Pilot Study Involving Three Nursing Homes in Brescia, a Hotspot of Lombardy [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Background: COVID-19 outbursts have been registered worldwide within care homes with asymptomatic transmission combined with shortage/inaccuracy of diagnostic tests undermining the efforts at containment of the disease.
Antonella Savio +4 more
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Recognition of Foal Nursing Behavior Based on an Improved RT-DETR Model
AnimalsFoal nursing behavior is a crucial indicator of healthy growth. The mare being in a standing posture and the foal being in a suckling posture are important markers for foal suckling behavior. To enable the recognition of a mare’s standing posture and its
Yanhong Liu +5 more
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Effects of Multicomponent Otago Exercise Program with Added Resistance Training on Sarcopenia in Pre-Frailty Older Adults in Nursing Homes: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
Clinical Interventions in AgingNeng Pan,1 Yan Chen,2 Zhaojian Wang,3 Chenming Liu,4 Jun Tong,5 Yuchen He,6 Zbigniew Marcin Ossowski1 1Faculty of Physical Culture, Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport, Gdansk, Poland; 2Sports Department, Northwest A&F University ...
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COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: The Problematic Management of Residents Without Positive COVID-19 RT-PCR [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020 Frédéric Bloch
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EpidemiologiaBackgound/Objectives: Cycle threshold (Ct) values of SARS-CoV-2 real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests are associated with infectivity and viral load, and they could be an aid in forecasting the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 ...
Juan Carlos Gascó-Laborda +12 more
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Looking for fever in nursing home residents with COVID-19: A false friend?
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 Objectives: Residents in nursing homes represent a frail, elderly population, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can spread easily in this setting.
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundAsymptomatic peripherally inserted central catheter-related thrombosis (PICC-RT) is one of the most common and dangerous complications caused by peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) insertion.
Xin Huang +5 more
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Viruses, 2022 An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) occurred in a nursing home in Niigata, Japan, November 2020, with an attack rate of 32.0% (63/197). The present study was aimed at assessing the pre-vaccination seroprevalence almost half a year after ...
Keita Wagatsuma +8 more
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Evaluating the Presence of Replication-Competent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) From Nursing Home Residents With Persistently Positive Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Results [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021 Abstract Replication-competent virus has not been detected in individuals with mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) more than 10 days after symptom onset. It is unknown whether these findings apply to nursing home residents.
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Viruses, 2022 Background: Comparative data on COVID-19 among health care workers (HCWs) in different health care settings are scarce. This study investigated the rates of previous COVID-19 among HCWs in nursing homes, hospitals and a municipal emergency room (ER ...
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