Publications by authors named "Bernard Carr"
Background: Influenza vaccination will have added importance this winter given the possibility of further waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines the impact of an electronic medical record (EMR) reminder on influenza vaccine uptake among eligible hospital inpatients.
Methods: We included a convenience sample of 750 adults (median age 77 years) who are eligible for influenza vaccination (⩾65 years and/or length of stay >30 days).
We update the constraints on the fraction of the Universe that may have gone into primordial black holes (PBHs) over the mass range 10to 10 g. Those smaller than ∼10 g would have evaporated by now due to Hawking radiation, so their abundance at formation is constrained by the effects of evaporated particles on big bang nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the Galactic and extragalactic-ray and cosmic ray backgrounds and the possible generation of stable Planck mass relics. PBHs larger than ∼10 g are subject to a variety of constraints associated with gravitational lensing, dynamical effects, influence on large-scale structure, accretion and gravitational waves.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To assess clinical outcomes and adverse drug events in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 treated with off-label hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (Az).
Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of hospitalised patients who had a positive polymerase chain reaction test for SARS-CoV-2 and received HCQ plus Az or no targeted therapy. The primary end point was clinical improvement on day 7 defined as either hospital discharge or an improvement of 2 points on a 6-category ordinal scale.