Publications by authors named "E J Zaragoza"

Background: Immunogenicity studies suggest that recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV) may provide better protection against influenza than standard-dose inactivated influenza vaccines (SD IIV). This randomized trial evaluated the relative vaccine effectiveness (VE) and immunogenicity of RIV versus SD IIV in frontline workers and students aged 18-64 years.

Methods: Participants were randomized to receive RIV or SD IIV and followed for reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-confirmed influenza during the 2022-2023 influenza season.

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Medical psychotropics are widely used and prescribed in developed countries. These medications may have an impairing effect on mood or perception and may induce harmful behaviors. Nevertheless, in Europe, studies on their importance from a medico-legal perspective are scarce.

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Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to significant disruptions in the healthcare system including surges of infected patients exceeding local capacity, closures of primary care offices, and delays of non-emergent medical care. Government-initiated measures to decrease healthcare utilization (i.e.

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Diagnostic radiology (DxR), having had successful serial co-evolutions with imaging equipment and PACS, is faced with another. With a backdrop termed "globotics transition," it should create an IT and informatics infrastructure capable of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into current critical communication functions of PACS and incorporating functions currently residing in balkanized products. DxR will face the challenge of adopting sustaining and disruptive AI innovations simultaneously.

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