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.
Clinical Practice
Portable chest radiography as an exclusionary test for adverse clinical outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Chest:2021: January 29 Full text
Delirium in patients with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: a multicenter study.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2021:69(2):293-99 Full text
Should we prescribe antibiotics in older patients presenting COVID-19 pneumonia?
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2020: December 4 Full text
Effect of Prone Positioning on the respiratory support of non-intubated patients with COVID-19 and acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: A retrospective matching cohort study.
Chest:2021: January 29 Full text
Effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic first wave and public policy on elective and emergency surgery provision in Southern Queensland. AUS
ANZ Journal of Surgery:2021: February 1 Full text
Pathophysiology
Respiratory and psychophysical sequelae among patients with COVID-19 four months after hospital discharge.
JAMA Network Open:2021: January 27 Full text
Association of smoking and cumulative pack-year exposure with COVID-19 outcomes in the Cleveland Clinic COVID-19 Registry.
JAMA Internal Medicine:2021: January 25 Full text
COVID-19 symptoms and SARS-CoV-2 antibody positivity in a large survey of first responders and healthcare personnel, May-July 2020.
Clinical Infectious Diseases:2021: January 31 Full text
Signs, symptoms, and comorbidities associated with poor outcomes among residents of a skilled nursing facility with SARS-CoV-2 infection—King County, Washington.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2021: January 28 Full text
Infection Control
COVID‐19 in the perioperative setting: applying a hierarchy of controls to prevent transmission.
AORN Journal:2021: February 3 Full text
Impact of a public policy restricting staff mobility between nursing homes in Ontario, Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:2021: January 26 Full text
Healthcare Worker Issues
Best‐practices for preventing skin injury beneath personal protective equipment during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a position paper from the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP).
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2021: February 3 Full text
Anxiety, sleep disorders and self‐efficacy among nurses during COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional study.
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2021: February 3 Full text
Vaccines and Immunology
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and the growing threat of viral variants.
JAMA:2021: January 28 Full text
Efficacy and safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
New England Journal of Medicine:2021: February 4 Full text
