Evidence Aid Research Summaries for COVID-19

Date: Friday May 22 – 2020

• CT imaging features of 4121 patients with COVID-19
• Scoping review of COVID-19 research
• Sinonasal pathophysiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 and COVID‐19
• Midwife-led care in the United Kingdom and Ireland may be a cost-effective, safe alternative to medical-led care
• Decreasing the rate of avoidable readmissions to acute care hospitals

Date: Wednesday, May 20 – 2020

• Convalescent plasma or hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID‐19: effects are uncertain (search done 23 April 2020)
• Factors associated with the willingness of healthcare workers to work during an influenza public health emergency
• mHealth interventions in low- and middle-income countries
• Healthcare workers’ perceptions of risk and use of coping strategies for emerging respiratory infectious diseases
• Pharmacist‐provided non‐dispensing services in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Date: Friday, May 15 – 2020

• Assertive community treatment for adults with severe mental illness
• Antimicrobial stewardship interventions in the emergency department
• E‐learning for healthcare workers is as effective as face-to-face learning for improving knowledge and skills of healthcare workers
• Physician assistants can be effective in primary care
• Rural outreach programs for medical students

Date: Wednesday, May 13 – 2020

• High-deductible health plans reduce healthcare cost and use, including use of needed preventive service
• Formulary restrictions to reduce costs and use of prescription drugs may have unintended adverse consequences
• Copayment for health care services
• Biomathematical models to mitigate fatigue and fatigue-related risks in emergency medical services operations: effects are uncertain
• Advanced practice nurses can provide safe and effective primary care

Date: Friday, May 8 – 2020

• Contracting out to improve the use of clinical health services in low‐ and middle‐income countries
• Interventions for children, youth, and parents to prevent and reduce cyber or online abuse
• Community monitoring interventions to curb corruption and increase access and quality of service delivery in low‐and middle‐income countries
• Screening travelers for infectious diseases
• Task shifting between healthcare workers can reduce health costs

Date: Wednesday, April 29 – 2020

• Community‐based rehabilitation interventions for people with disabilities in low‐and middle‐income countries are effective
• Interventions to manage acute malnutrition in children under 5 years of age in low‐and middle‐income countries
• Financial benefits for child health and well‐being in low income or socially disadvantaged families in high-income countries
• Cash transfer programme increase school enrolment in low- and middle-income countries
• School‐based decision‐making in low‐and middle‐income countries

Date: Friday, April 24 – 2020

• Training and deployment of lay refugee and internally displaced persons to provide basic health services in camps
• Interactive telemedicine
• Emergency department crowding: causes, consequences and solutions
• Online social networks to help track a pandemic
• Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19: benefits and harms are uncertain

Date: Monday, April 20 – 2020

• Interventions to promote well‐being of children exposed to intimate partner violence
• GP co-operatives and walk-in centres to reduce attendance at emergency departments
• COVID-19 epidemiology
• Early mobilization or active exercise for critically ill ICU patients
• D-dimer is associated with severity of COVID-19

Date: Wednesday, April 16 – 2020

• Risk factors and risk factor cascades for communicable disease outbreaks in complex humanitarian emergencies
• Ethical guidance for disaster response
• Managerial supervision to improve primary health care in low- and middle-income countries: effects are uncertain
• Psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it in COVID-19
• Hand-hygiene interventions reduce illness due to acute respiratory infections in childcare, school and domestic settings in low- and middle-income countries