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
The lived experience of physical separation for hospice patients and families amid COVID-19.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management:2022: May 17 Full text
Outcome Studies
The short-term outcomes of patients with chronic liver disease hospitalized with COVID-19.
Internal Medicine Journal:2022: May 12 Full text
Infection Control
Scent dogs in detection of COVID-19: triple-blinded randomised trial and operational real-life screening in airport setting.
BMJ Global Health:2022: May 16 Full text
Repeated transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in an overcrowded Irish emergency department elucidated by whole genome sequencing.
Journal of Hospital Infection:2022: May 10 Full text
Workplace Issues
The workplace and psychosocial experiences of Australian junior doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2022: February 21 Full text
The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on intensivists’ well-being: a qualitative study.
Chest:2022: May 11 Full text
Sustaining the Australian respiratory workforce through the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping literature review. AUS
Internal Medicine Journal:2022: April 5 Full text
Trauma-informed mental health practice during COVID-19: reflections from a community of practice initiative. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing:2022: May 16 Full text
Vaccines
Neutralizing antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant (BA.1) 1 to 18 weeks after the second and third doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine.
JAMA Network Open:2022: May 13 Full text
Association of prior BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents during omicron predominance.
JAMA:2022: May 13 Full text
Immunology
Differential evasion of delta and omicron immunity and enhanced fusogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 omicron BA.4/5 and BA.2.12.1 subvariants.
bioRxiv:2022: May 17 Full text