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Systematic review / meta-analysis 2022
Children's health

COVID-19 and idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in children: systematic review of the literature and recommendations from a highly affected area.

Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)

Background Coronavirus Disease 2019 has spread from China as a global pandemic, Italy being one of the earliest affected countries. The infection displays a more complicated and often fatal course in adults with a history of kidney disease, while it does not s

Systematic review / meta-analysis 2022
Diabetes and metabolism

Growing up green: a systematic review of the influence of greenspace on youth development and health outcomes.

Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology

Youth growing up in places with more greenspaces have better developmental outcomes. The literature on greenspace and youth development is largely cross-sectional, thus limited in terms of measuring development and establishing causal inference. We conducted a

Randomised controlled trial 2018
Women's health

Protocol for the ROSE sustainment (ROSES) study, a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial to determine the minimum necessary intervention to maintain a postpartum depression prevention program in prenatal clinics serving low-income women.

Implementation science : IS

Background More research on sustainment of interventions is needed, especially return on investment (ROI) studies to determine cost-benefit trade-offs for effort required to sustain and how much is gained when effective programs are sustained. The ROSE sustain

Randomised controlled trial 2022
Infections and immunity

Aprotinin treatment against SARS-CoV-2: A randomized phase III study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a pan-protease inhibitor for moderate COVID-19.

European journal of clinical investigation

Background SARS-CoV-2 virus requires host proteases to cleave its spike protein to bind to its ACE2 target through a two-step furin-mediated entry mechanism. Aprotinin is a broad-spectrum protease inhibitor that has been employed as antiviral drug for other hu

Systematic review / meta-analysis 2021
Children's health

COVID-19 under 19: A meta-analysis.

Pediatric pulmonology

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to cause global havoc posing uncertainty to educational institutions worldwide. Understanding the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in children is important because of the potential impac

Systematic review / meta-analysis 2020
Lungs and breathing

Nursing issues in enteral nutrition during prone position in critically ill patients: A systematic review of the literature.

Intensive & critical care nursing

Background Early enteral nutrition (EN) and prone position may both improve the outcome of patients affected by moderate to severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Recent guidelines suggest to administer early EN also during prone position. However, EN int

Randomised controlled trial 2021
Infections and immunity

Safety and efficacy of inhaled nebulised interferon beta-1a (SNG001) for treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial.

The Lancet. Respiratory medicine

Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection carries a substantial risk of severe and prolonged illness; treatment options are currently limited. We assessed the efficacy and safety of inhaled nebulised interferon beta-1a (

Randomised controlled trial 2022
Women's health

Remdesivir plus standard of care versus standard of care alone for the treatment of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (DisCoVeRy): a phase 3, randomised, controlled, open-label trial.

The Lancet. Infectious diseases

Background The antiviral efficacy of remdesivir against SARS-CoV-2 is still controversial. We aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of remdesivir plus standard of care compared with standard of care alone in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, with

Randomised controlled trial 2021
Lungs and breathing

Nebulised heparin for patients with or at risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial.

The Lancet. Respiratory medicine

Background Mechanical ventilation in intensive care for 48 h or longer is associated with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which might be present at the time ventilatory support is instituted or develop afterwards, predominantly during the first

Randomised controlled trial 2022
Prevention and public health

An updated practical guideline on use of molnupiravir and comparison with agents having emergency use authorization for treatment of COVID-19.

Diabetes & metabolic syndrome

Background and aims Molnupiravir is a newer oral antiviral drug that has recently received emergency use authorization (EUA) in USA, UK and India. We aim to conduct an update on our previous systematic review to provide practical clinical guideline for using m

Randomised controlled trial 2018
Women's health

AntiEpileptic drug Monitoring in PREgnancy (EMPiRE): a double-blind randomised trial on effectiveness and acceptability of monitoring strategies.

Health technology assessment (Winchester, England)

Background Pregnant women with epilepsy on antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) may experience a reduction in serum AED levels. This has the potential to worsen seizure control. Objective To determine if, in pregnant women with epilepsy on AEDs, additional therapeutic d