Articles: covid-19.
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Personal characteristics may be associated with believing misinformation and not believing in best practices to protect oneself from COVID-19. ⋯ Lower educational attainment and health literacy, greater medical mistrust, and certain sources of health information are associated with misinformed COVID-19 beliefs. Programs addressing misinformation should focus on groups affected by these social determinants of health by encouraging reliance on scientific sources.
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Age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMR) for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) increased in 2020 and 2021, and provisional data indicated an increase in 2022, resulting in substantial excess CVD deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated estimates using final data for 2022 are needed. ⋯ In 2022, the CVD AAMR among adults aged ≥35 years did not increase, but rather declined from a peak in 2021, signaling improvements in adverse mortality trends that began in 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the 2022 CVD AAMR remains higher than observed before the COVID-19 pandemic, indicating an ongoing need for CVD prevention, detection, and management.
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This research aims to develop an effective algorithm for diagnosing COVID-19 in chest X-rays using the transfer learning method and support vector machines. ⋯ This study confirms the importance of applying machine learning methods in medical applications and opens new perspectives for early diagnosis of infectious diseases. The practical application of the obtained results can enhance the efficiency of diagnosis and control the spread of COVID-19, as well as contribute to the development of innovative methods in medical practice.
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The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between nurses' burnout status and their intention to leave the job during the COVID-19 pandemic. ⋯ This study determined that as nurses' burnout level increased, their intention to quit their jobs increased.
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Internal medicine journal · Feb 2025
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital presentations in adults with gastrointestinal infections at a tertiary centre in Australia.
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the enactment of substantial public health measures aimed at reducing the transmission of respiratory viruses. The impact of these measures on gastrointestinal (GI) infections remains unexplored. ⋯ There was a substantial decrease in hospital admissions with GI infections, particularly Norovirus, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Admissions because of Clostridioides increased. Stringent public health measures reducing interpersonal contact and increased antibiotic prescribing respectively may explain these changes, while an increased reluctance to seek medical care may also have contributed to the sharp overall decrease in hospitalisations.