Background: The COVID-19 pandemic placed an additional mental health burden on individuals and families, resulting in widespread service access problems. Digital mental health interventions suggest promise for improved accessibility. Recent reviews have shown emerging evidence for individual use and early evidence for multiusers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBridging the gap between genetic variations, environmental determinants, and phenotypic outcomes is critical for supporting clinical diagnosis and understanding mechanisms of diseases. It requires integrating open data at a global scale. The Monarch Initiative advances these goals by developing open ontologies, semantic data models, and knowledge graphs for translational research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) group produced the Optimal Resources for Children's Surgery (OReCS) document in 2019, listing standards of children's surgical care by level of healthcare facilities within low resource settings. We have previously created and piloted an audit tool based on the OReCS criteria in a high-income setting. In this study, we aimed to validate its use in identifying gaps in children's surgery provision worldwide.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The criteria and process for liberation from extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome are not standardized. The predictive accuracy of the oxygen challenge test as a diagnostic test in determining weaning and decannulation from venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was tested.
Design: A single-centre, retrospective, observational cohort study.