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Telehealth in Urology: A Systematic Review of the Literature. How Much Can Telemedicine Be Useful During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic?

2020

Context Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused increased interest in the application of telehealth to provide care without exposing patients and physicians to the risk of contagion. The urological literature on the topic is sparse. Objective To perform a systematic review of the literature and evaluate all the available studies on urological applications of telehealth. Evidence acquisition After registration on PROSPERO, we searched PubMed and Scopus databases to collect any kind of studies evaluating any telehealth interventions in any urological conditions. The National Toxicology Program/Office of Health Assessment and Translation Risk of Bias Rating Tool for Human and A…

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Outcomes after perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with proximal femoral fractures: an international cohort study

2021

ObjectivesStudies have demonstrated high rates of mortality in people with proximal femoral fracture and SARS-CoV-2, but there is limited published data on the factors that influence mortality for clinicians to make informed treatment decisions. This study aims to report the 30-day mortality associated with perioperative infection of patients undergoing surgery for proximal femoral fractures and to examine the factors that influence mortality in a multivariate analysis.SettingProspective, international, multicentre, observational cohort study.ParticipantsPatients undergoing any operation for a proximal femoral fracture from 1 February to 30 April 2020 and with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infec…

Malemedicine.medical_specialty2474Multivariate analysisMORTALITY-RATEShipSURGERYSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)MULTICENTERCOVIDSurg Collaborative1117 Public Health and Health ServicesCohort StudiesMedicine General & InternalInternal medicineGeneral & Internal MedicinemedicineDementiaHumans1506Prospective StudiesAged 80 and overCOMPLICATIONSScience & TechnologyHIP-FRACTURESbusiness.industryHip FracturesSARS-CoV-2RCOVID-191103 Clinical SciencesGeneral MedicineFemoral fracturePerioperativemedicine.diseaseHeart failuretrauma managementMedicineSurgery1737businessLife Sciences & BiomedicineFemoral FracturesKidney diseaseCohort study1199 Other Medical and Health SciencesBMJ Open
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