This page lists feature articles on COVID-19 relevant to people working at St Vincent's Health Australia.
All articles listed are open access unless stated otherwise.
Therapy
The ten reasons why corticosteroid therapy reduces mortality in severe COVID-19.
Intensive Care Medicine:2020: October 7 Full text
Hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus: how not to repurpose a drug during a pandemic.
Internal Medicine Journal:2020: October 30 Full text
Clinical Practice
Effect of statin therapy on SARS-CoV-2 infection-related mortality in hospitalized patients.
European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy:2020: November 2 Full text
Six lessons for COVID-19 rehabilitation from HIV rehabilitation.
Physical Therapy:2020: 100(11):1906-09 Full text
Operational considerations for physical therapy during COVID-19: a rapid review.
Physical Therapy:2020:100(11):1917-29 Full text
Early physical therapist interventions for patients with COVID-19 in the acute care hospital: a case report series.
Physical Therapy:2020: October 19 Full text
Preventing COVID-19 infection in mental health units: recommendations for best practices.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing:2020:41(11):969-75 Full text
Pathophysiology
Characteristics of cardiac injury in critically ill patients with COVID-19.
Chest:2020: October 28 Full text
COVID‐19 in older adults: a series of 76 patients aged 85 years and older with COVID‐19.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2020: October 12 Full text
Pathological features of COVID-19-associated myocardial injury: a multicentre cardiovascular pathology study.
European Heart Journal:2020:41(39):3827-35 Full text
SARS-CoV-2 in first trimester pregnancy: a cohort study.
Human Reproduction:2020: November 4 Full text
Thyroid dysfunction in relation to immune profile, disease status and outcome in 191 patients with COVID-19.
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism:2020: November 3 Full text
Neopterin predicts disease severity in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases:2020: November 3 Full text
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19-infected cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute:2020: November 2 Full text
Immunology
Lack of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in a large cohort of previously infected persons.
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2020: November 4 Full text
