News: COVID

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Risk of blood clots remains for almost a year after COVID-19 infection, study suggests

  • 21 Sep 2022
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Paper:

Association of COVID-19 With Major Arterial and Venous Thrombotic Diseases: A Population-Wide Cohort Study of 48 Million Adults in England and Wales

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Conducting rapid qualitative research: the CLIP-Q approach

  • 21 Sep 2022
Screen shot of the CLIP Q paper in Frontiers of Sociology
Paper:

The experience of conducting collaborative and intensive pragmatic qualitative (CLIP-Q) research to support rapid public health and healthcare innovation

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Survey reveals benefits and drawbacks of remote incontinence assessments

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Paper:

Professional perspectives on impacts, benefits and disadvantages of changes made to community continence services during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the EPICCC-19 national survey

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Children playing with a skipping rope in a city street

Study shows children’s physical activity levels fell below national guidelines in wake of pandemic

  • 16 May 2022
Accelerometer‑measured physical activity and sedentary time among children and their parents in the UK before and after COVID‑19 lockdowns: a natural experiment paper screenshot
Paper:

Accelerometer‑measured physical activity and sedentary time among children and their parents in the UK before and after COVID‑19 lockdowns: a natural experiment

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NEWS2 helps identify sickest COVID-19 patients

Screenshot of the COVID-19 and NEWS2 paper
Paper:

Prognostic value of National Early Warning Scores (NEWS2) and component physiology in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a multicentre study

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Understanding how COVID-19 impacted on people who use drugs

Screen shot of the LUCID-B paper
Paper:

Living Under Coronavirus and Injecting Drugs in Bristol (LUCID-B): A qualitative study of experiences of COVID-19 among people who inject drugs

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A man receives a COVID-19 vaccination

A case for and against COVID-19 vaccine boosters

  • 14 Sep 2021
Lancet Viewpoint on COVID-19 vaccination boosters
Paper:

Considerations in boosting COVID-19 vaccine immune responses

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A GP consultation during the COVID pandemic, with both patient and doctor wearing masks

How did GPs manage face-to-face appointments during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Paper:

Maintaining face-to-face contact during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal qualitative investigation in UK primary care

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How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect people who inject drugs?

Screen shot of the LUCID-B paper
Paper:

Living Under Coronavirus and Injecting Drugs in Bristol (LUCID-B): A qualitative study of experiences of COVID-19 among people who inject drugs

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Intensive Care Unit

Interleukin-6 antagonists improve outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients

JAMA paper on IL-6 Antagonists and COVID
Paper:

Association Between Administration of IL-6 Antagonists and Mortality Among Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 A Meta-analysis

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Patient reporting of possible cancer symptoms to GPs fell during first wave of pandemic

Screen shot of the RAPCI cancer indicator reporting paper in BMJ Open
Paper:

Changes in presentations with features potentially indicating cancer in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study

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