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Great News: Latest Research Shows Immunity to COVID-19 Lasts at Least 8 Months

• Fears that our immune system could swiftly forget its encounter with the SARS-CoV-2 virus are increasingly unfounded with an Australian study revealing our blood is still capable of mounting a strong response eight months post-infection.
• This is good news for those concerned that COVID-19 vaccines won’t deliver the period of protection needed to manage the virus’s spread throughout the population.
• While it’s still too early to tell just how long immunity to this specific coronavirus might last, we can be confident time will probably be on our side.

Source: Science Alert

Investigating the challenges and opportunities for medicines management in an NHS field hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Hospital admissions from COVID-19 initially increased rapidly within the UK.
• National Health Service (NHS) field hospitals are part of a capacity building response built at great scale and speed to respond to the anticipated increased demand the NHS faces during this time.
• Opportunities and challenges presented for optimal medicines management (MM) are investigated, and a framework developed to support future NHS field hospitals of this model.

Source: EJHP

Accelerating Global Improvements in Health Care Quality

• Improving the quality of health care is not an enterprise reserved for wealthier countries.
• Many lower-resourced countries, historically focused on expanding access to essential health services, now place a similar priority on higher quality.
• Universal health coverage, a key Sustainable Development Goal, is meaningful only if the access it ensures is to effective and safe health services.

Source: JAMA Network

Why is research evidence better than expert opinion alone?

• In a broad sense, research evidence can be any systematic observation in order to establish facts and reach conclusions.
• Anything not fulfilling this definition is typically classified as “expert opinion”
• Using expert opinion as the only basis to make decisions has proved problematic because in practice doctors often introduce new treatments too quickly before they have been shown to work, or they are too slow to introduce proven treatments.

Source: BMJ

NAHQ Awards Recognize Outstanding Healthcare Quality Professionals

• Four healthcare quality professionals earned top honors from the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) for their contributions to the profession.
• Amid a global pandemic, this year’s winners have provided true inspiration for their colleagues and peers and are worth emulating. Each award winner demonstrated their commitment to excellence and a focus on strengthening their healthcare quality competencies, which we know results in improved quality, patient safety and overall delivery of care

Source: NAHQ

Sample Size Estimation in Clinical Research: From Randomized Controlled Trials to Observational Studies

• Sample size determination is an essential step in planning a clinical study.
• It is critical to understand that different study designs need different methods of sample size estimation.
• This article reviews basic statistical concepts in sample size estimation, discusses statistical considerations in the choice of a sample size for randomized controlled trials and observational studies, and provides strategies for reducing sample size when planning a study.

Source: ScienceDirect

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