Covid-19: GP surgeries close for two weeks after staff test positive

COVID-19: A Window of Opportunity for Positive Healthcare Reforms

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is testing healthcare systems like never before and all efforts are now being put into controlling the COVID-19 crisis. We witness increasing morbidity, delivery systems that sometimes are on the brink of collapse, and some shameless rent seeking. However, besides all the challenges, there are also possibilities t...

Contacting GP surgeries over Christmas

Editor—A more plausible interpretation of the data presented by Rouse is that his researcher did not allow the telephone to ring for sufficient time to allow a member of the practice staff to answer it. The table shows that the researcher made around 270 telephone calls to the 91 practices in the three days before Christmas. This equates to an average of one call every 4 minutes. In reality, th...

Incidence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after COVID-19 among Medical Staff of Masih Daneshvari Hospital

Background: The fast outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 in the world, has put great physical and psychological pressure on medical staff of hospitals occupied in treating the COVID-19. It would cause the development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among them. Thus, the current study aimed to determine the incidence of PTSD in hospital staff who were involved in treatment of COVID-19 pa...

COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: The Problematic Management of Residents Without Positive COVID-19 RT-PCR

Orthopedic Trauma Surgeries in COVID-19 Pandemic; A Trauma Management Algorithm

After the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide, we will sooner or later encounter trauma patients with COVID-19 in thedeveloping countries. It is a challenging decision-making process for an orthopedic surgeon to provide the patients withthe best practice in the crisis. Here we discuss the issue in terms of clinical severity of COVID-19 pneumonia, priorityof orthopedic surgical trauma ...