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Evidencias COVID-19

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Preventing the transmission of infectious diseases among healthcare workers is important to the building of resilient health systems, especially during epidemics and pandemics. Various types of personal protective equipment (PPE) are used to help achieve this. Use of N95 respirators and surgical masks is associated with a reduced risk of COVID-19 when compared with no mask use (high certainty evidence). In moderate- to high-risk environments, N95 respirators are associated with a further ...

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Evidence on the safety of percutaneous endovascular forearm arteriovenous fistula creation for haemodialysis access raises no major safety concerns. However, evidence on its efficacy is limited in quantity and quality. Therefore, this procedure should only be used with special arrangements for clinical governance, consent, and audit or research.

Evidencias COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic and other emergencies and disasters places a strain on the physical and mental health of healthcare workers and frontline responders. Effective interventions to alleviate this would help improve the resilience of health systems.

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NICE

SeHCAT is a test for diagnosing bile acid diarrhoea. Having bile acid diarrhoea can affect quality of life and limit daily activities, such as the ability to work. There is an unmet clinical need for a test to diagnose bile acid diarrhoea. Having a test is important to explain the person's symptoms and offer treatment. Despite additional research since NICE diagnostics guidance on SeHCAT in 2012, clinical evidence on SeHCAT remains limited in quantity and quality. Most studies are small and ...

Evidencias COVID-19

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Educational meetings, nutrition training of health workers, educational outreach, practice facilitation, local opinion leaders, audit and feedback, and tailored interventions are useful implementation strategies targeted at healthcare workers. Training healthcare workers to be more patient centered in clinical consultations; use of birth kits; clinician education and patient education to reduce antibiotic prescribing in ambulatory care settings; and in-service neonatal emergency care training ...