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What The Study Did: This randomized clinical trial compared the change in pain severity among adults with chronic low back pain who received electroacupuncture or a placebo treatment.
Authors: Jiang-Ti Kong, M.D., of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22787)
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What The Study Did: Whether the number of cases at hospitals of common medical emergencies such as heart attack and appendicitis have changed during the COVID-19 pandemic was investigated in this study.
Authors: Melanie Hayden Gephart, M.D., M.A.S., of the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3982)
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What The Study Did: Researchers looked at the frequency of hospitalization for all non–COVID-19-related conditions in a New York health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Saul Blecker, M.D., M.H.S., of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3978)
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What The Article Says: The difficulties associated with mourning in the time of COVID-19 are discussed in this essay.
Author: Amrapali Maitra, M.D., Ph.D., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5635)
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What The Article Says: This Patient Page offers breastfeeding and pumping milk guidelines for mothers who have tested positive for COVID-19, who have been exposed to COVID-19 or work in a setting with increased risk of exposure to the virus.
Authors: Sandra E. Sullivan, M.D., I.B.C.L.C., and Lindsay A. Thompson, M.D., M.S., of the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, are the authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3341)
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What The Study Did: The levels of severity of depressive symptoms among at-risk individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK were examined in this study.
Authors: Eleonora Iob, M.Sc., of University College London, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26064)
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What The Study Did: This study examined the seropositive prevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China, by sex and age group.
Authors: Yongman Lv, M.D., of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25717)
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What The Study Did: University students in France who experienced quarantine during COVID-19 were surveyed to assess how common were mental health issues and to identify factors associated with these disorders.
Authors: Fabien D’Hondt, Ph.D., of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille in Lille, France, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25591)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether state-imposed stay-at-home orders and the proportion of African American population in a state were associated with the state-level COVID-19 cases from March to May 2020.
Authors: Bisakha Sen, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26010)
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What The Viewpoint Says: The financial risks and challenges for independent oncology practices in the COVID-19 era and possible solutions to promote their stability and survival are discussed in this Viewpoint.
Authors: Zachary A. K. Frosch, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.4753)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated differences in health care use and survival between Medicare patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementia living in rural compared with urban areas.
Authors: Momotazur Rahman, Ph.D., of the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22111)
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What The Study Did: Researchers in this randomized clinical trial compared the effect of early administration of tocilizumab with standard therapy in preventing clinical worsening in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia.
Authors: Carlo Salvarani, M.D., of Unita Operativa di Reumatologia in Reggio Emilia, Italy, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6615)
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What The Study Did: This randomized clinical trial assessed whether tocilizumab improves outcomes of patients hospitalized with moderate-to-severe COVID-19 pneumonia compared to usual care.
Authors: Olivier Hermine, M.D., Ph.D., of the Université de Paris, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6820)
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What The Study Did: Whether treatment with tocilizumab in the first two days after being admitted to an intensive care unit was associated with a reduced risk of death among critically ill patients with COVID-19 was investigated in this study.
Authors: David E. Leaf, M.D., M.M.Sc., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6252)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined the sociodemographic characteristics of patients associated with racial/ethnic differences in COVID-19 outcomes.
Authors: Bhramar Mukherjee, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25197)
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What The Viewpoint Says: The need for collaborative care among health care professionals to meet mental health demands in the COVID-19 pandemic is discussed in this Viewpoint.
Authors: Andrew D. Carlo, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3216)
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What The Study Did: In this survey study of U.S. adults, vaccine-related attributes and political characteristics were associated with self-reported preferences for choosing a hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine and self- reported willingness to receive vaccination. These results may help inform public health campaigns to address vaccine hesitancy when a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.
Authors: Douglas L. Kriner, Ph.D., of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25594)
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What The Article Says: COVID-19 presents a new and urgent opportunity to focus political will, federal investments, and global community on the vital imperative of suicide prevention. Suicide prevention in the COVID-19 era requires addressing not only pandemic-specific suicide risk factors, but also prepandemic risk factors.
Authors: Christine Moutier, M.D., of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3746)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection rates in a large multistate sample of U.S. skilled nursing facilities and variation in case counts by SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in the counties where facilities are located.
Authors: Elizabeth M. White, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., of the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5664)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the differences by race/ethnicity in rates of different types of breast cancer among 200,000 women in the United States.
Authors: Jing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., and Yi Fang, M.D., Ph.D., of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20303)
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What The Study Did: Down syndrome experts reviewed the medical literature to develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the care of adults with Down syndrome.
Authors: Amy Y. Tsou, M.D., M.Sc., of the Evidence-Based Practice Center in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.17024)
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What The Viewpoint Says: How COVID-19 vaccines can be distributed strategically, ethically and legally is considered in this article given conflicts between consensus public health recommendations to prioritize allocation to disadvantaged racial and ethnic minorities and laws discouraging explicit consideration of race in policy decisions.
Authors: Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D., of Georgetown University in Washington, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20571)
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What The Article Says: This review synthesizes the literature regarding tracheostomy and laryngectomy management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: José Vergara, B.Sc., S.L.P., of the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.3720)
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What The Study Did: Testimonials posted on a social media site were analyzed to examine whether individuals are using the cannabis-derived chemical compound cannabidiol (CBD) in an attempt to treat diagnosable conditions that have evidence-based therapies.
Authors: John W. Ayers, Ph.D., M.A., of the University of California, San Diego, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20977)
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What The Study Did: New evidence on preventing and treating HIV infection in adults was reviewed to update practice recommendations from the International Antiviral (formerly AIDS) Society–USA.
Authors: Michael S. Saag, M.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.17025)
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What The Study Did: National survey data were used to look at how common electronic cigarette use is among U.S. adults, if they were current or former smokers and used e-cigarettes to help quit smoking.
Authors: Margaret Mayer, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20694)
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What The Study Did: COVID-19 deaths and excess all-cause mortality in the U.S. are compared with 18 countries with diverse COVID-19 responses in this study.
Authors: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20717)
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What The Study Did: This study updates a previous report of the estimated number of excess deaths in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic through August 1 and describes causes of those deaths and relationships with lifting of coronavirus restrictions.
Authors: Steven H. Woolf, M.D., MP.H., of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19545)
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What The Article Says: This devastating pandemic has affected nearly ev- ery aspect of daily life. While nations struggle to man- age the initial waves of the death and disruption asso- ciated with the pandemic, accumulating evidence indicates another “second wave” is building: rising rates of mental health and substance use disorders.
Authors: Charles R. Marmar, M.D., of the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19632)
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What The Article Says: This Viewpoint aggregates mortality, morbidity, mental health conditions, and direct economic losses to estimate the total cost of the pandemic in the U.S. on the optimistic assumption that it will be substantially contained by the fall of 2021.
Authors: David M. Cutler, Ph.D., of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19759)
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What The Article Says: Ways the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded existing health, human rights and economic disparities in communities of color are discussed in this Viewpoint, which also proposes a program of restorative justice in response, comprising investments in education and housing, reforms in lending practices and criminal justice, and more.
Authors: Lisa A. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19567)
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What The Study Did: The association between the COVID-19 pandemic and health care-related data collection is examined in this Viewpoint article.
Authors: Makoto Mori, M.D., of the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5542)
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What The Study Did: The risk of mother-to-newborn transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection was examined in this study.
Authors: Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, M.D., M.Sc., and Melissa S. Stockwell, M.D., M.P.H., of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.4298)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined the association between use of e-cigarettes and self-reported wheezing among adolescents ages 12 to 17.
Authors: Alayna P. Tackett, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20671)
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What The Study Did: National survey data were used to examine how rates of alcohol abstinence and marijuana abstinence, the use of both, and use disorders changed among young adults in the United States between 2002 and 2018.
Authors: Sean Esteban McCabe, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3352)
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What The Study Did: This study combined the results of 68 studies with 200,000 patients to estimate the subsequent risk of ischemic stroke (when a blood vessel to the brain is blocked usually by a blood clot) after a transient ischemic attack (TIA)and how that risk has changed over time.
Authors: Ramin Zand, M.D., M.P.H., of Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.3627)
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What The Study Did: This Viewpoint from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration puts into context recent guidance on clinical trials during COVID-19 for oncology and shares insight regarding regulatory challenges and lessons learned.
Authors: Anand Shah, M.D., of the FDA in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.4975)
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What The Study Did: The complications, safety and timing of tracheotomy performed for critically ill patients with COVID-19 is assessed in this observational study.
Authors: Isabel Vilaseca, M.D., Ph.D., of the Institut Clínic d’Especialitats Mèdiques i Quirúrgiques, Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, Spain, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.3641)
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What The Study Did: This case series examined whether SARS-CoV-2 exists in the ocular tissues of a patient with COVID-19.
Authors: Xiao Chen, M.D., of the General Hospital of the Central Theater Command in Wuhan, China is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.3962)
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What The Study Did: Women surgeons were interviewed to better understand workplace conflicts they experience with nonphysician staff members.
Authors: Lesly A. Dossett, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19843)
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What The Study Did: Researchers compared rates of liver transplant wait-listing by race/ethnicity in states that expanded Medicaid after passage of the Affordable Care Act with states that didn’t.
Authors: Lauren D. Nephew, M.D., M.S.C.E., of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19869)
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What The Study Did: This case series of 192 patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 analyzes the transmission routes of SARS-CoV-2 to Southern California and explains local community spread within the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Authors: Jasmine T. Plummer, Ph.D., of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.24191)
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What The Study Did: A survey study of Texas police officers examines how common mental illness and mental health care use are in a large urban department.
Authors: Katelyn K. Jetelina, M.P.H., Ph.D., of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health in Dallas, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19658)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined whether changes in chain restaurant advertising spending were associated with weight changes among adults across 370 counties in the United States.
Authors: Sara N. Bleich, Ph.D., of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19519)
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What The Study Did: Changes in internet searches in New York for mental health issues, including anxiety, panic attack, insomnia and depression, during the COVID-19 pandemic were analyzed in this study.
Authors: Stefan Stijelja, B.S., of the Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3271)
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What The Study Did: This observational study quantified national changes in the volume, type and content of primary care delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially with regard to office-based visits compared with telemedicine encounters.
Authors: G. Caleb Alexander, M.D., M.S., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.21476)
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What The Study Did: How the 2016 U.S. presidential election was associated with changes in the mental health of Muslim college students was assessed in this study.
Authors: Sara Abelson, M.P.H., of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3694)
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What The Study Did: This observational study looked at changes from 2013 to 2018 in the rates of catheter–associated bloodstream and urinary tract infections among critically ill infants and children the United States.
Authors: Heather E. Hsu, M.D., M.P.H., of the Boston University School of Medicine, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3223)
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What The Study Did: In this randomized clinical trial, daily hydroxychloroquine didn’t prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection among hospital-based health care workers, although the trial was terminated early.
Authors: Ravi K. Amaravadi, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6319)
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What The Study Did: Researchers describe what to their knowledge is the first case of a cerebrospinal fluid leak after nasal testing for COVID-19.
Authors: Jarrett Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.3579)
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What The Study Did: Extended follow-up of randomized clinical trial participants was used to investigate whether the risk of asthma or recurrent wheeze among young children was changed by avoiding supplementing breastfeeding with cow’s milk formula after birth.
Authors: Mitsuyoshi Urashima, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18534)
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What The Study Did: The U.S. Army Public Health COVID-19 Task Force describes the results of an independent investigation of the shore-based USS Theodore Roosevelt outbreak response and 736 sailors in isolation status.
Authors: Gadiel R. Alvarado, D.O., of the Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20981)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined variation among states in how common high blood pressure disorders of pregnancy (including pregnancy-induced hypertension or pre-eclampsia) and eclampsia were among 3.6 million women who had a live birth in 2017.
Authors: Alexander J. Butwick, M.B.B.S., M.S., of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18741)
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What The Study Did: This observational study looked at the association between Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and long-term home health care and nursing home use among newly eligible low-income adults and older adults whose eligibility did not change.
Authors: Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Ph.D., of the Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Durham, North Carolina, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18728)
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What The Study Did: The outcomes associated with deferred compared with expedited aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis during the COVID-19 pandemic are evaluated in this observational study.
Authors: Thomas Pilgrim, M.D. M.Sc., of the University of Bern in Switzerland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.20402)
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What The Study Did: This single-center study of 77 patients describes the outcomes of patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Stamatios Lerakis, M.D., Ph.D., of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19801)
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What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated the association between having any prior psychiatric diagnosis and COVID-19- related mortality of hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Authors: Luming Li, M.D., of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23282)
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What The Study Did: This survey study describes the public’s preferences for allocating a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
Authors: Sarah E. Gollust, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in Minneapolis, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23020)
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What The Study Did: Individual-level changes in alcohol use and the consequences associated with alcohol use by U.S. adults from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic are examined in this study.
Authors: Michael S. Pollard, Ph.D., of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.22942)
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What The Study Did: A repeated testing protocol for COVID-19 among patients with cancer was examined in this quality improvement study.
Authors: Manish A. Shah, M.D., of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23121)
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What The Study Did: Risk factors associated with developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among first responders deployed to the 2011 Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster were examined in this observational study.
Authors: Masanori Nagamine, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Defense Medical College Research Institute in Tokorozawa City, Japan, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18339)
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What The Study Did: This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates current evidence on the susceptibility to and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among children and adolescents compared with adults.
Authors: Russell M. Viner, Ph.D., of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in London, United Kingdom, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.4573)
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What The Study Did: Electrocardiographic findings a woman in her 50s with COVID-19, fever and shortness of breath, with comorbidities that included morbid obesity and obstructive sleep apnea, are reported in this case series.
Authors: Henry D. Huang, M.D., of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3818)
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