Background: The COVID-19 lockdown had profound effects on society and healthcare. Cardiology departments reported declines in chest pain evaluations and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) diagnoses. However, the pattern of chest pain in primary care is not clear yet.
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Introduction: Depressive and anxiety disorders are common mental disorders ranking among the leading causes of global disease burden. Not all clients currently benefit from therapy and clients are looking for modern ways of therapy. Online psychotherapy is a promising option for better meeting clients' needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To assess the reporting and methodological quality of early-life policy intervention papers that applied difference-in-differences (DiD) analysis.
Study Design: Systematic review.
Data Sources: Papers applying DiD of early-life policy interventions in high-income countries as identified by searching Medline, Embase and Scopus databases up to December, 2022.
The initiative 'Swiss Natural History Collection Network' (SwissCollNet) aims to improve the accessibility of the Swiss natural history collections for research, education and the wider public. In the 2021-24 funding period, SwissCollNet is identifying, prioritizing and digitizing as many collections as possible and building an online portal called the 'Swiss Virtual Natural History Collection' (hereafter SVNHC) to provide open access to harmonized sample data from Swiss collections. The University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons developed scenarios for the technical implementation of the SVNHC portal in a preliminary study on behalf of SwissCollNet and based on the requirements of collections and data centres.
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