06/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 6/11/2020. This interim guidance, updated June 11, 2020, reflects the current understanding and ongoing response needs of healthcare systems and facilities. Previous guidance was preventative and meant to help healthcare facilities prepare for community transmission, while current guidance is for managing operations during the pandemic. (Text)
06/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 6/11/2020. This 31-page report analyzes the risk of COVID-19 for the general population and those with risk factors for severe disease, according to the current state of knowledge on the virus and associated disease, and in light of the current stage of epidemic stage in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom. (PDF)
06/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 6/11/2020. This 56-page rapid advice guide examines the evidence and makes recommendations for the use of chest imaging in acute care of adult patients with suspected, probable, or confirmed COVID-19. Imaging modalities considered are radiography, computed tomography, and ultrasound. This guide addresses the care pathway from presentation of the patient to a health facility to patient discharge. (PDF)
06/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Center for Health Security [Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health]. Published: 6/10/2020. This 34-page report describes the myriad factors that influence nursing workforce development and training for pandemic response, as well as the safety and support needed during pandemics at the government, system, organization, and individual levels. It also identifies gaps and proposes short- and long-term recommendations for ways to improve the readiness, safety, and support of the national nursing workforce for COVID-19 and future pandemics. (PDF)
06/09/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 6/9/2020. This web page provides a collection of federal resources designed to guide vaccine planning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ensuring immunization services are maintained or reinitiated is essential for protecting individuals and communities from vaccine-preventable diseases and outbreaks, and reducing the burden of respiratory illness during the upcoming influenza season. (Text)
06/04/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Published: 6/4/2020. This web page provides the first set of underlying coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) nursing home data, and a searchable map. The next set of data will be updated in two weeks. Going forward after that date, CMS plans to update the data weekly. (Text)
06/04/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Published: 6/4/2020. The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) and the National Highway Transportation Administration (NHTSA) Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) worked together to compile the best practices in this five-page document to assist in responding to civil unrest incidents in the community, and to prepare personnel, the station, apparatus, and the community for emergency response in a challenging environment. (PDF)
06/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH). Published: 6/3/2020. The speaker in this one-hour, two-minute presentation discusses an international integrated analysis of the Human Cell Atlas Lung Biological Network, which identified the cell types throughout the body most likely to be susceptible to viral entry, including COVID-19. In line with epidemiological observations, it also identified increased expression of key mediators of SARS-CoV-2 cellular entry associated with increasing age, male gender, and smoking. (Video or Multimedia)
06/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Published: 6/2/2020. This 14-page document is intended to provide practical guidance to UNDP Country Offices on how to design effective rapid responses to COVID-19 information pollution and how to situate those in longer-term approaches. It provides both immediately practicable intervention approaches, as well as longer-term programmatic considerations, and key definitions and common terminology. (PDF)
06/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 6/2020. This 60-page document examines the unique considerations when developing mass care and emergency assistance plans associated with a pandemic scenario, and provides these considerations for jurisdictions that are responding to a pandemic, or responding to a pandemic occurring concurrently with a natural, technological, and/or human caused disaster. The processes discussed can be implemented by the jurisdiction without federal assistance or when federal assistance is requested and available. (PDF)
06/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Safeguarding Health in Conflict. Published: 6/2020. This 68-page report, an in-depth assessment of violence and threats to health care in regions experiencing armed conflict and political violence, identifies more than 1,203 reported incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in 20 countries and territories experiencing conflict in 2019, compared to the 973 reported in 23 countries and territories for 2018. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequences of violence against health care will be felt even more acutely. (PDF)
06/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Academies Press (NAP). Published: 6/2020. This 15-page rapid expert consultation provides insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the data on the COVID-19 pandemic by applying five criteria to seven types of data available to support decision-making. It was produced through the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), an activity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. SEAN links researchers in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences with decision-makers to respond to policy questions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Text)
06/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 6/2020. This 76-page document represents the complete proceedings of the eighth Department of Defense State-of-the-Science Meeting (SoSM), held March 5–7, 2019, on the topic Limb Salvage and Recovery After Blast-Related Injury. It summarizes the presentations and the findings, conclusions, and recommendations that emerge from SoSM expert-led working groups. (PDF)
05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Dialogue4Health. Published: 5/20/2020. This one-hour, 32-minute webinar highlights the disproportionate impact the COVID-19 outbreak is having on communities of color, and the short- and long-term efforts needed to address this impact. Presenters discuss how people of color disproportionately have higher rates of many chronic conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and asthma, which are associated with the social determinants of health, and how this pandemic is revealing the consequences of these longstanding inequities. (Video or Multimedia)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 5/2020. This 15-page report discusses the need for more sustainable and scalable ways of incentivising pharmaceutical industry innovation in response to infectious disease threats to public health. The authors consider incentives for innovation both in the current context of the COVID-19 crisis, and in the context of preventing other emerging or re-emerging infectious disease threats from becoming crises further down the line. (PDF)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Healthcare Ready. Published: 5/2020. This 48-page report summarizes the results of the 2020 annual national preparedness poll, gauging the perspectives of U.S. residents on disaster preparedness. It found that Americans are still most concerned that a natural disaster will affect their community, and that respondents are increasingly concerned about an exotic disease or common disease outbreak. (PDF)
04/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Northwest Center for Public Health Practice [University of Washington] (NWCPHP). Published: 4/28/2020. This one-hour webinar reviews a unique community partnership for addressing the COVID-19 response, and discusses how to consider the benefits and challenges of forming and working with a public-private-community leadership group in a rapidly evolving public health crisis, and identify practical mechanisms to maximize timely two-way information sharing and feedback with community partners. (Video or Multimedia)
04/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Published: 4/25/2020. First responders are on the frontlines of the nation’s response to COVID-19. The challenges they face are immense, and the toll of their work on first responders and their families can be significant. This four-page document from the Federal Healthcare Resilience Task Force contains suggestions to help families of first responders cope during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
04/04/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institute of Mental Health [National Institutes of Health] (NIMH). Published: 4/4/2020. We developed this measure of psychosocial impact of COVID-19 at the NIMH Intramural Research Program (IRP) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our protocol, titled Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on NIMH Patients and Volunteers, was launched in early April 2020. In the past two months, the study has enrolled nearly 2,400 people from all 50 states and internationally using an online platform. We ask participants to repeat the survey every two weeks via our study website (nimhcovidstudy.ctss.nih.gov). Our survey focuses on the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which we supplement with additional measures of mental health symptoms and distress. Questions Adapted From: Our survey stemmed from one that was originally written by Argyris Stringaris in March 2020 at the NIMH IRP, who went on to further develop the measure with our NIMH IRP colleague Kathleen Merikangas. They have since posted their survey on a website: crisissurvey.org. Our measure overlaps with the CRISIS survey for many of the items with a few exceptions. We developed it for use with adults (the original Stringaris measure was for adolescents). It does not have two versions (initial and follow-up), and does not include questions about demographics, mental health, or substance use symptoms. Population: Adults Only All/Anyone First Responders, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Personnel, Police/Fire Departments High Risk/Special/Unique Populations Length: 45 items Time to Complete: 10 minutes Mode of Administration: Online (e.g., computer-assisted interview) Administered by: Self Administered Language(s): English (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Iowa (UI). Published: 4/2020. Project COVERED is a prospective enrolled-cohort analysis of 1,600 health care personnel (HCP) working in 20 U.S. emergency departments (EDs) with the following primary objectives: (1) to estimate the attributable risk of occupational acquisition of COVID-19 infection for ED HCP; (2) to identify patient-, provider-, facility-, and procedure-based risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmission to ED HCP; and (3) to determine the prevalence of symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 infection. Secondary aims of the study include: (1) to measure how ED operations change in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) to measure how organizational factors contribute to HCP well-being during the pandemic; and (3) to understand how HCPs are using PPE, and applying countermeasures to reduce transmission outside the workplace. Data are collected from participants and from facilities on a weekly basis during a planned 12-week observation period. Modules included in the surveys include: (1) Participant interest screening form; (2) Participant enrollment form/baseline participant survey; (3) Baseline facility form; (4) Weekly participant survey; (5) Weekly facility survey; (6) Endotracheal intubation/cardiac arrest form; (7) Patient information form; (8) Post-serology follow-up form (week 4); (9) Post-serology site PI organizational factors form; (10) Participant six-month follow-up survey; (11) Facility six-month follow-up survey; and (12) Baseline positive testing follow-up form. In addition to survey data, participants are providing serum serology and nasal PCR samples for testing every two weeks. Survey are all administered from a central REDCap system, and participants are sent survey requests by email and text message. Population: Adult Workers Length: 611 questions Time to Complete: 12 weeks Mode of Administration: Online (e.g., computer-assisted interview) Administered by: Self Administered Language(s): Engilsh (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: American Hospital Association (AHA). Published: 4/2020. This four-page document provides considerations that can help hospitals address the social needs of their patients and community members during the COVID-19 pandemic. Awareness of the social determinants of health that impact patients and communities will help protect and treat the nation’s most vulnerable communities. (PDF)
03/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: Indian Health Service (IHS) [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]. Published: 3/2020. This web page provides links to archived COVID-19 trainings and webinars from the Indian Health Service, starting on March 26, 2020, and updated regularly. (Video or Multimedia)
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