Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Covid-19 pandemic and the unprecedented mobilisation of scholarly efforts prompted by a health crisis: Scientometric comparisons across SARS, MERS and 2019-nCov literature
Published 2020During the current century, each major coronavirus outbreak has triggered a quick and immediate surge of academic publications on this topic. The spike in research publications following the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) ...Preprint -
Distributive justice during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in Australia
Published 2020Distributive justice refers to the fair and appropriate distribution of benefits, risks and costs within a society. In a medical context, this requires patients with similar cases to be treated in a similar manner, and for ...Article -
Mental health at the age of coronavirus: time for change
Published 2020We are living in the age of the coronavirus (Covid-19). This emergency has put everything else in the background, conditioning and changing most aspects of our lives. As widely reported, health services in many countries ...Article -
Evidence for decontamination of single-use filtering facepiece respirators
Published 2020Single-use filtering face respirators (FFRs) are critical pieces of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers treating patients with suspected upper respiratory tract pathogens. Experiences during pandemics in ...Article -
Impact of salt substitute and stepwise reduction of salt supply on blood pressure in residents in senior residential facilities: Design and rationale of the DECIDE-salt trial
Published 2020The study is well placed to define the effects of two practical and scalable sodium reduction strategies for blood pressure reduction and will provide important new data about safety of these strategies among older adults ...Article