Understanding health service utilisation patterns for care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic using routinely collected healthcare data.

Background: Healthcare in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic required a balance, providing treatment while minimising exposure risk. Policy for how residents should receive care changed rapidly throughout the pandemic. A lack of accessible data on care home residents over this time meant policy decisions were difficult to make and verify.

Effect of Hydrocortisone on Mortality and Organ Support in Patients With Severe COVID-19: The REMAP-CAP COVID-19 Corticosteroid Domain Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Evidence regarding corticosteroid use for severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is limited.

Objective: To determine whether hydrocortisone improves outcome for patients with severe COVID-19.

Design, Setting, And Participants: An ongoing adaptive platform trial testing multiple interventions within multiple therapeutic domains, for example, antiviral agents, corticosteroids, or immunoglobulin.

Retrospective audit of unplanned admissions to pediatric high dependency and intensive care after surgery.

Background: Unplanned admissions to intensive care after surgery are a recommended clinical indicator of patient safety in the perioperative period and are validated to reflect both surgical and anesthesia-related complications.

Objectives: To determine the rate and reasons for unplanned admissions to high dependency (HDU) and pediatric intensive care (PICU) following noncardiac surgery.

Methods: Data, including diagnosis, operation, and history of presenting complaint, were retrieved from electronic HDU and PICU data and hospital records for a 5-year period.