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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2022

Global Challenges to Public Health Care Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Pandemic Measures and Problems.

Roxana Filip, Roxana Gheorghita Puscaselu, Liliana Anchidin-Norocel, Mihai Dimian, Wesley K Savage

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 344 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
344citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
69.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

344 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 715 citations in OpenAlex.

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284 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roxana FilipFaculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.
Roxana Gheorghita PuscaseluFaculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.
Liliana Anchidin-NorocelFaculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.
Mihai DimianIntegrated Center for Research, Development and Innovation in Advanced Materials, Nanotechnologies, and Distributed Systems for Fabrication and Control, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-2093-8659
Wesley K SavageFaculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, 720229 Suceava, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-3442-6582
Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beginning in December 2019, the world faced a critical new public health stressor with the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. Its spread was extraordinarily rapid, and in a matter of weeks countries across the world were affected, notably in their ability to manage health care needs. While many sectors of public structures were impacted by the pandemic, it particularly highlighted shortcomings in medical care infrastructures around the world that underscored the need to reorganize medical systems, as they were vastly unprepared and ill-equipped to manage a pandemic and simultaneously provide general and specialized medical care. This paper presents modalities in approaches to the pandemic by various countries, and the triaged reorganization of medical sections not considered first-line in the pandemic that was in many cases transformed into wards for treating COVID-19 cases. As new viruses and structural variants emerge, it is important to find solutions to streamline medical care in hospitals, which includes the expansion of digital network medicine (i.e., telemedicine and mobile health apps) for patients to continue to receive appropriate care without risking exposure to contagions. Mobile health app development continues to evolve with specialized diagnostics capabilities via external attachments that can provide rapid information sharing between patients and care providers while eliminating the need for office visits. Telemedicine, still in the early stages of adoption, especially in the developing world, can ensure access to medical information and contact with care providers, with the potential to release emergency rooms from excessive cases, and offer multidisciplinary access for patients and care providers that can also be a means to avoid contact during a pandemic. As this pandemic illustrated, an overhaul to streamline health care is essential, and a move towards greater use of mobile health and telemedicine will greatly benefit public health to control the spread of new variants and future outbreaks.

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medical system reorganizationpreventionprotectiontelemedicineworkflow

Identifiers

PMID36013244
PMCPMC9409667
OpenAlexW4290601167

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.