EFFECTIVENESS OF INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL INTERVENTIONS, EXCLUDING PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, TO PREVENT NOSOCOMIAL TRANSMISSION OF SARS-COV-2: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND CALL FOR ACTION

Effectiveness of infection prevention and control interventions, excluding personal protective equipment, to prevent nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review and call for action

Summary: Many infection prevention and control (IPC) interventions have been adopted by hospitals to limit nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2.The aim of this systematic review is to identify evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions.We conducted a literature search of five databases (OVID MEDLINE, Embase, CENTRAL, COVID-19 Portfolio (

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Is convalescent plasma futile in COVID-19? A Bayesian re-analysis of the RECOVERY randomized controlled trial

Background: Randomized trials are generally performed from a frequentist perspective, which can conflate absence of evidence with evidence of absence.The RECOVERY trial evaluated convalescent plasma for patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and concluded that there was no evidence of an effect.Re-analysis from a Bayesian pe

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Evolution of the perception of the threats to security in Spain

security was internal, in other words, subversion and opposition to the regime.Public opinion, however, revealed Twin Bed w/Storage that characteristics very different to those in the context of the western block existed, such as a void perception of the soviet threat as opposed to a marked antiamericanism for its support of the regime.This legacy

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