Publications by authors named "I Montag"
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- Detection dogs were trained to identify SARS-CoV-2 infections by sniffing armpit sweat, with samples collected from confirmed positive and negative patients.
- After a training period of 2-3 months, the dogs exhibited high sensitivity (81%), specificity (98%), and accuracy (95%) in detecting the virus, with validation showing consistent performance.
- The study found a unique scent in SARS-CoV-2 positive sweat linked to various volatiles, and a survey indicated strong public support for using these dogs as a reliable pre-screening tool alongside traditional PCR testing.
Effects of care pathways on the in-hospital treatment of heart failure: a systematic review.
BMC Cardiovasc Disord
September 2012
Background: Care pathways have become a popular tool to enhance the quality of care by improving patient outcomes, promoting patient safety, increasing patient satisfaction, and optimizing the use of resources. We performed a disease specific systematic review to determine how care pathways in the hospital treatment of heart failure affect in-hospital mortality, length of in-hospital stay, readmission rate and hospitalisation cost when compared with standard care.
Methods: Medline, Cinahl, Embase and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were searched from 1985 to 2010.
Personality traits and psychosocial adjustment of patients with burns.
J Burn Care Rehabil
September 1999
Existing literature demonstrates a relationship between selected personality traits and coping, a relationship explored here in a sample of 61 male Israeli patients with burns. Successful coping was assessed by the 5-item Satisfaction With Life Scale and 2 single-item measures of adjustment to the specific injury. Results suggest that adjustment to the traumatic experience of a burn injury is strongly related to specific personality traits rather than to the physical features of the injury.
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