COVID-19 outbreak measures may indirectly lead to greater burden on hospitals

GA Heckman, M Saari, C McArthur, NIH Wellens… - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
We thank Dr. Laupacis for his solemn yet hopeful editorial on coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19). 1 While the focus on acute care and public health services is justified, we posit …

RE: COVID-19 response and chronic disease management

GA Heckman, M Saari, C McArthur, NIH Wellens… - 2024 - Can Med Assoc
We thank Dr. Laupacis for his solemn yet hopeful editorial on COVID-19.[1] While the focus
on acute care and public health services is justified, we posit that chronic disease …

The COVID-19 pandemic strikes again and again and again

LC Myers, VX Liu - JAMA network open, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven relentlessly challenging for health care. Although
some positive consequences have resulted from these challenges, including the move to …

Low-income COVID-19 patients die needlessly because they are stuck in the wrong hospitals—while the right hospitals too often shut them out

C Kelly, WF Parker, HA Pollack - Health Affairs Forefront, 2021 - healthaffairs.org
A heart-wrenching February 8 New York Times story by Sheri Fink describes vast
inequalities across hospitals during Los Angeles's latest COVID-19 surge. At Martin Luther …

COVID-19 in Canada: experience and response to waves 2 and 3

AS Detsky, II Bogoch - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
The first waveof COVID-19 infections in Canada began in January 2020 and wound down
about 5 months later. 1 This Viewpoint describes the Canadian experience and response to …

[HTML][HTML] Hospital-at-home to support COVID-19 surge—time to bring down the walls?

S Nundy, KK Patel - JAMA Health Forum, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
As the world grapples with accelerating cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),
experts have called for a surge in hospital capacity to provide acute care for individuals with …

All hands on deck as cases of COVID-19 surge

G Basky - 2020 - Can Med Assoc
Canada won't have enough health care workers to deal with the expected surge in cases of
COVID-19 without major changes in the way care is managed, said Dr. Michael Warner …

[HTML][HTML] A call to action to enhance understanding of long COVID in long‐term care home residents

JM Sorensen, VA Crooks, S Freeman… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1. Wynants L, Van Calster B, Collins GS, et al. Prediction models for diagnosis and
prognosis of covid-19: systematic review and critical appraisal. BMJ. 2020; 369: 26. 2 …

[HTML][HTML] What happened to the hospital patients who had “nowhere else to go”?

B Sibbald - 2020 - Can Med Assoc
Ontario Public Health reported an increase of 13 to 40 COVID-19 deaths among hospital
patients over the same period. The Ministry of Long-Term Care told CMAJ that capacity and …

COVID-19—looking beyond tomorrow for health care and society

PB Fontanarosa, H Bauchner - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Just 6 months ago, the novel coronavirus now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19, the severe disease it causes, were unheard of …