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Social Intervention By The Numbers: Evidence Behind The Specific Public Health Guidelines In The Covid-19 Pandemic., Michael P. Savage, David L. Fischman, Mamas A. Mamas Jun 2021

Social Intervention By The Numbers: Evidence Behind The Specific Public Health Guidelines In The Covid-19 Pandemic., Michael P. Savage, David L. Fischman, Mamas A. Mamas

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly become a worldwide pandemic ushering in a global health and economic crisis. In the absence of vaccines or definitive drug therapies, current strategies against COVID-19 rely on preventing the transmission of disease through nonpharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing and proper hand hygiene. For practical and perhaps ethical reasons, the clinical efficacy of these public health measures for managing pandemics has not been demonstrated in randomized controlled clinical trials. Accordingly, guideline recommendations for using nonpharmaceutical interventions are based primarily on observational and modeling studies and on expert opinion. A recent position paper from the …


Conduct Of Clinical Trials In The Era Of Covid-19: Jacc Scientific Expert Panel., Mitchell A. Psotka, William T. Abraham, Mona Fiuzat, Gerasimos Filippatos, Joann Lindenfeld, Tariq Ahmad, Ankeet S. Bhatt, Peter E. Carson, John G.F. Cleland, G. Michael Felker, James L. Januzzi, Dalane W. Kitzman, Eric S. Leifer, Eldrin F. Lewis, John J.V. Mcmurray, Robert J. Mentz, Scott D. Solomon, Norman Stockbridge, John R. Teerlink, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Orly Vardeny, David J. Whellan, Janet Wittes, Stefan D. Anker, Christopher M. O'Connor Nov 2020

Conduct Of Clinical Trials In The Era Of Covid-19: Jacc Scientific Expert Panel., Mitchell A. Psotka, William T. Abraham, Mona Fiuzat, Gerasimos Filippatos, Joann Lindenfeld, Tariq Ahmad, Ankeet S. Bhatt, Peter E. Carson, John G.F. Cleland, G. Michael Felker, James L. Januzzi, Dalane W. Kitzman, Eric S. Leifer, Eldrin F. Lewis, John J.V. Mcmurray, Robert J. Mentz, Scott D. Solomon, Norman Stockbridge, John R. Teerlink, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Orly Vardeny, David J. Whellan, Janet Wittes, Stefan D. Anker, Christopher M. O'Connor

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has profoundly changed clinical care and research, including the conduct of clinical trials, and the clinical research ecosystem will need to adapt to this transformed environment. The Heart Failure Academic Research Consortium is a partnership between the Heart Failure Collaboratory and the Academic Research Consortium, composed of academic investigators from the United States and Europe, patients, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and industry members. A series of meetings were convened to address the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, review options for maintaining or altering best practices, and establish …


New Normal For Medical Practice Post Covid-19?, David B. Nash Oct 2020

New Normal For Medical Practice Post Covid-19?, David B. Nash

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

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