Preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic: Public health emergencies and medical literature

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2020, Pages 634-636

  Guterman, Elan L ^a   Braunstein, Lior Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ADVERSE OUTCOME; CONSENSUS; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PANDEMIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONE POSITION; PSEUDOSCIENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; UNITED STATES; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EMERGENCY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 85092680885     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12788/JHM.3491     Document Type: Review

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