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
Effect of helmet noninvasive ventilation vs high-flow nasal oxygen on days free of respiratory support in patients with COVID-19 and moderate to severe hypoxemic respiratory failure: The HENIVOT Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA:2021: March 25 Full text
Comparison of time to clinical improvement with vs without remdesivir treatment in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
JAMA Network Open:2021: March 24 Full text
Clinical Practice
The impact of COVID‐19 on alcohol and other drug nurses' provision of care: A qualitative descriptive study. AUS
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2021: March 3 Full text
Use of telehealth by surgical specialties during the COVID-19 pandemic.
JAMA Suregry:2021: March 26 Full text
Development and implementation of a Pacific Island‐centred COVID‐19 Health Worker Safety Guide. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2021: March 14 Full text
National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) to identify inpatient COVID-19 deterioration: a retrospective analysis.
Clinical Medicine Journal:2021: March 24 Full text
An overview of COVID‐19 in people with diabetes: pathophysiology and considerations in the inpatient setting. AUS
Diabetic Medicine:2021:38(3):e14509 Full text
Infection Control
The effects of trained observers (dofficers) and audits during a facility-wide COVID-19 outbreak: a mixed-methods quality improvement analysis.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: March 25 Full text
The effect of respiratory activity, non‐invasive respiratory support and facemasks on aerosol generation and its relevance to COVID‐19. AUS
Anaesthesia:2021: March 30 Full text
Pathophysiology
Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19: retrospective cohort study.
BMJ:2021: March 31 Full text
Immunosuppression as a risk factor for COVID‐19: a meta‐analysis. SVHA
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: February 25 Full text
How COVID-19 Affects the brain.
JAMA Psychiatry:2021: March 26 Full text
Alterations in T and B cell function persist in convalescent COVID-19 patients.
Cell Med:2021: March 31 Full text
Acute Kidney Injury in COVID-19: multicentre prospective analysis of registry data
Clinical Kidney Journal:2021: March 27 Full text
Mortality
Risk of mortality in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/1: matched cohort study.
BMJ:2021:372:n579 Full text
Increased mortality in community-tested cases of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7.
Nature:2021: March 15 Full text
Case fatality risk of the SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern B.1.1.7 in England.
MedRxiv:2021: March 10 Full text
Immunology, Vaccines and Testing
Seroprevalence and humoral immune durability of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Wuhan, China: a longitudinal, population-level, cross-sectional study.
Lancet:2021: March 18 Full text
Assessment of protection against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 among 4 million PCR-tested individuals in Denmark in 2020: a population-level observational study.
Lancet:2021: March 17 Full text
Efficacy of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/01 (B.1.1.7): an exploratory analysis of a randomised controlled trial.
Lancet:2021: March 31 Full text
Lessons learned from frontline skilled nursing facility staff regarding COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2021: March 25 Full text
Are saliva and deep throat sputum as reliable as common respiratory specimens for SARS-CoV-2 detection? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
American Journal of Infection Control:2021: March 24 Full text
Psychological Aspects
Silent suffering of the dying and their families: impact of COVID‐19. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2021: March 1 Full text
Health‐related quality of life of COVID‐19 patients after discharge: A multicenter follow‐up study.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2021: March 3 Full text
