COVID-19 Literature

This article reports on the Ohio Hospital Association’s adoption of new guidance for allocating scarce resources during a public health emergency, including recommending the use of a triage committee rather than bedside personnel to make allocation decisions. The guidance also Read More

This essay from Joseph J. Fins, one of the authors of New York’s 2015 guidelines on ventilator allocation during a public health emergency, contends that the Task Force’s guidelines should not be interpreted to authorize the commandeering of ventilators used Read More

This article reports on new guidelines from Massachusetts health officials for potential rationing of ventilators in the event COVID-19 case surge overwhelms available supply. According to the article, the guidance uses an 8-point scoring system based on a patient’s likelihood Read More

This editorial highlights the importance of disseminating information graphically via social media for rapid uptake by health care providers. Individuals are facing a challenge of transferring knowledge about current best practices to people who need it most – frontline health Read More

Social distancing measures to address the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic may have significant health, social, and economic impacts. This study estimates the mean change in state-level COVID-19 epidemic growth before versus after the implementation of statewide social distancing measures in the Read More

This paper focuses on two scalable and readily available methods of mass reporting of COVID-19 cases in real time to fill in important gaps in the operational reporting of this pandemic. To respond to COVID-19, many countries are using a Read More

This article explains why the current mortality rates of COVID-19 should not be compared between countries. The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread internationally. Worldwide, almost 700,000 cases and 33,000 deaths have been reported. The WHO estimates the Read More

This panel report contains five main and three additional recommendations intended to help medical practitioners use CXR and CT in the management of COVID-19. While mild cases of COVID-19 appear like other common upper respiratory viral infections, more severe cases Read More

This modeling study describes a publicly available system designed for hospital operations leaders that can inform preparations for capacity strain under the COVID-19 pandemic. This study used a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the timing of surges for clinical resources, Read More

This cohort study suggests that laboratory levels of LDH, CRP, ALT and NEU can be useful in predicting the results of COVID-19 test. This diagnostic accuracy study sought to determine the accuracy of laboratory parameters in predicting cases with positive Read More