CONCLUSION: This study identified several challenges that impacted the adoption and implementation of telemedicine services for hospital care in Portugal during the pandemic period. These challenges were related to digital health literacy
PURPOSE: As the COVID-19 pandemic forced most colleges and universities to go online, student health centers rapidly shifted to telehealth platforms without frameworks for virtual care provision. An urban student health center implemented a needs
CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown measures undermined women's access to maternal and family planning services and interfered with their ability to achieve their reproductive goals. The paper concludes with a number of
CONCLUSIONS: Progression to timely orchiopexy remains low for all boys in the era surrounding COVID-19; certain groups appear to be more adversely affected.
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual number of lung transplants performed in the United States increased. The year 2022, encompassed in this report, marks the last full calendar year where the Lung Allocation Score was used for
COVID-19 has altered how individuals interact with natural environments. Numerous studies have investigated the effects of such environments on health. However, how natural environments influenced individuals' physiological and mental health during
Patients who have previously undergone coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) were prone to death anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. It appears that spiritual well-being and appropriate coping strategies may mitigate the harmful effects of death
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated pulmonary aspergillosis superinfection with cytokine storm is associated with increased mortality. This study aimed to establish a physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PK) model to investigate the
Foundational cognitive models propose that people with anxiety and depression show risk estimation bias, but most literature does not compute true risk estimation bias by comparing people's subjective risk estimates to their individualized reality (i