[HTML][HTML] Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19

J Budd, BS Miller, EM Manning, V Lampos, M Zhuang… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Digital technologies are being harnessed to support the public-health response to COVID-
19 worldwide, including population surveillance, case identification, contact tracing and …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 length of hospital stay: a systematic review and data synthesis

EM Rees, ES Nightingale, Y Jafari, NR Waterlow… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an unprecedented strain on health
systems, with rapidly increasing demand for healthcare in hospitals and intensive care units …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 scenario modelling for the mitigation of capacity-dependent deaths in intensive care

RM Wood, CJ McWilliams, MJ Thomas… - Health care …, 2020 - Springer
Managing healthcare demand and capacity is especially difficult in the context of the COVID-
19 pandemic, where limited intensive care resources can be overwhelmed by a large …

Operations (management) warp speed: Rapid deployment of hospital‐focused predictive/prescriptive analytics for the COVID‐19 pandemic

P Shi, JE Helm, C Chen, J Lim… - Production and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
At the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, hospitals were in dire need of data‐driven analytics
to provide support for critical, expensive, and complex decisions. Yet, the majority of …

[HTML][HTML] A flexible method for optimising sharing of healthcare resources and demand in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

L Lacasa, R Challen, E Brooks-Pollock, L Danon - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
As the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to grow, local health services are at risk of
being overwhelmed with patients requiring intensive care. We develop and implement an …

The value of triage during periods of intense COVID-19 demand: Simulation modeling study

RM Wood, AC Pratt, C Kenward… - Medical Decision …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, many intensive care units have been
overwhelmed by unprecedented levels of demand. Notwithstanding ethical considerations …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: a simple statistical model for predicting intensive care unit load in exponential phases of the disease

M Ritter, DVM Ott, F Paul, JD Haynes, K Ritter - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
One major bottleneck in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the limited number of critical
care beds. Due to the dynamic development of infections and the time lag between when …

From alpha to zeta: Identifying variants and subtypes of sars-cov-2 via clustering

A Melnyk, F Mohebbi, S Knyazev, B Sahoo… - Journal of …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The availability of millions of SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-
Coronavirus-2) sequences in public databases such as GISAID (Global Initiative on Sharing …

[HTML][HTML] Maintaining standards in colorectal cancer surgery during the global pandemic: a cohort study

J Merchant, I Lindsey, D James, N Symons… - World Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Aim Cancer surgery in the COVID-19 pandemic presents many new challenges. For each
patient, the risk of contracting COVID-19 during the perioperative period, with the potential …

Building the culture of public health as a positive reflection from the COVID-19 crisis

HH Alsaqqa - Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The goal of this study was to look at the impact of different components of COVID-19 on the
development of a public health culture during the COVID-19 pandemic. Culture is largely …