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ELC Enhancing Detection: Rhode Island Testing Plan
From the Document: "The broad goals of the Rhode Island State Testing Plan are as follows: 1) Implement efficient and timely testing for symptomatic individuals with suspected COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]; 2) Perform screening of asymptomatic individuals at high-risk of COVID-19 and from underserved populations; 3) Perform sentinel surveillance of populations with a focus on high-risk and underserved populations; 4) Ensure isolation and timely contact tracing of SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] positive cases with quarantining of close contacts. Rhode Island is currently performing >60,000 tests/month. This represents 5.7% of the state's population."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Pennsylvania Testing Plan
From the Document: "The Wolf Administration has developed an enhanced testing strategy with a focus on three pillars: ensuring testing is accessible for all Pennsylvanians with symptoms of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]; available by increasing supply and building community capacity; and adaptable to the evolving landscape of the virus and data. Through this enhanced strategy, the Administration has set a goal for 90 percent of people in Pennsylvania to live within 45 miles from a specimen collection site in addition to the goal of 2 percent of the population in every region throughout the commonwealth to be tested per month. The number of cases in communities will continue to be closely monitored to ensure that specimen collection sites are situated appropriately in areas with the greatest need."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Ohio Testing Plan
From the Document: "Through the leadership of Governor Mike DeWine, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the work of the State of Ohio Testing Strike Force, Ohio has worked to maximize the use of testing platforms by establishing a statewide network of laboratories, linking state and private laborites under a single effort. Recognizing the value of our local partners and science experts the state utilized the existing infrastructure of sophisticated hospital and academic medical center laboratories throughout the state, as well as the existing Ohio Department of Health lab."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Oregon Testing Plan
From the Document: "According to the 2019 Annual Oregon Population Report, Oregon's population is 4,236,400. In order to test 2% of our population per month, we must build capacity to test 84,728 people per month. In order to meet this target, the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory (OSPHL) have partnered with local public health authorities (LPHAs), healthcare systems, academic institutions, commercial laboratories and retail sites. Through these partnerships, we have created a network of laboratories which can perform up to 140,000 tests per month."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Philadelphia Testing Plan
From the Document: "The Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) is committed to continued rapid detection and containment of SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2]. There are currently over 50 testing sites in Philadelphia, including sites run by health systems, health centers, pharmacies and urgent cares. Since March 2020, PDPH has been working with healthcare partners throughout Philadelphia to increase testing capacity, accessibility, and speed of reporting. Expanded testing efforts have been planned through June 2020, with components in varying stages of execution, to reach a goal of 150,000 tests performed each month by testing sites across the city. PDPH's short-term testing expansion strategy focuses on maximizing its own laboratory capacity, implementation of rapid testing platforms at testing sites, continuation of testing partnerships with Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and long-term care facilities, and development of new community-based testing programs in coordination with partner organizations like urgent care centers and retail pharmacies."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: South Carolina Testing Plan
From the Document: "South Carolina has an approximate population of 5.1 million in 46 counties. To bolster testing capacity and reach the goal of testing at least 2% of the population each month, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is utilizing agency resources and fostering public and private partnerships to increase access to testing, particularly for under resourced communities and vulnerable populations."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Palau Testing Plan
From the Document: "Prior to March 2020, Palau relied on a referral system for testing through the Hawaii State Laboratory Division and Guam Public Health Laboratory. The MOH [Ministry of Health] began efforts to establish local diagnostic capacity in February and by April had secured a molecular diagnostic testing platform with 100,000 test kits and worked quickly to train laboratory staff to conduct testing. In March, all commercial flights were suspended, effectively cutting off Palau from access to all reference laboratories for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] testing. There are currently two full-time laboratory technologists who are trained to perform COVID-19 diagnostic testing using a high-throughput RT-PCR [real-time polymerase chain reaction] testing platform."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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ELC Enhancing Detection: Puerto Rico Testing Plan
From the Document: "The volume of tests in the State current testing plan for May 2020 includes 7,700 diagnostic tests and 10,280 for June 2020. The current testing capacity in the Puerto Rico Department of Health is for 1,022 diagnostic tests daily for a total of 30,660/month, which is 48% of the 2% of Puerto Rico's population (64,000). In order to reach 100% of the 2% population, we plan to increase testing capacity by acquiring new testing platforms for the Puerto Rico Public Health Laboratories that are high throughput."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2020
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Psychological, Political, and Situational Factors Combine to Boost COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs
From the Document: "Conspiracy theories (CTs) are not solely the domain of extremists and paranoids. They cut across demographic and political differences (Uscinski and Parent, 2014) and can have negative social/political consequences. [...] Scholars have identified psychological, political, and situational factors that contribute to the likelihood that someone will endorse a CT. [...] The global COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is a perfect storm for activating these psychological, political, and situational factors. Uscinski et al. (2020) find that conspiratorial thinking is positively related to the endorsement of two COVID-19 CTs. Moreover, because the current political context is one in which a Republican president is being widely criticized for his handling of the pandemic (threatening the political worldviews of those on the right), Republicans are more likely to believe COVID-19 CTs than Democrats or Independents (Uscinski et al., 2020). Finally, personal uncertainty (likely induced by the pandemic) is positively related to COVID-19 CT beliefs (Miller, 2020)."
Canadian Political Science Association
Miller, Joanne M.
2020
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COVID-19, Fiscal Federalism and Provincial Debt: Have We Reached a Critical Juncture?
From the Introduction: "In 2019, Canada's gross subnational debt to GDP [gross domestic product] was well over 40 per cent, easily the highest in the world[.] This level will only grow as the provinces grapple with the pandemic and its fiscal effects. Some believe surging provincial debts have brought Canadian federalism to a critical juncture: they have greatly increased the odds of federal measures to stabilize provincial finances. This article assesses this claim. The cleanest and most balanced path to fiscal sustainability is a combination of enhanced federal transfers, which would bolster provincial fiscal capacity, and national fiscal rules, which would constrain provincial borrowing. But the former is unlikely to restore sustainability on its own, and the latter would require a severe provincial debt crisis, which Canada's existing fiscal federal structures can avoid. COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has increased the odds of certain reforms, and it is difficult to predict their long-run effects. But any obvious paths to fiscal sustainability remain hidden."
Cambridge University Press
Hanniman, Kyle
2020
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Examining the Need for Eye Protection for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Prevention in the Community
From the Document: "As the world reopens after extreme social distancing designed to flatten the curve and protect hospitals, it appears that even countries that had controlled coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with widespread testing and contact tracing, such as South Korea and Singapore, are seeing increased case counts. One proposed method for reducing transmission as society reopens is requiring the public to wear face coverings, including cotton face masks or face shields. An important factor that distinguishes face shields from masks is eye protection. Yet the importance of eye protection in the prevention of COVID-19 and other coronaviruses is underappreciated, which has led to public health authorities recommending cotton face masks over potentially more protective alternatives, such as face shields. The mucous membranes of healthcare workers (HCWs), including the conjunctiva, may be exposed to respiratory droplets from the patient. The importance of eye protection during care of patients with novel coronaviruses was recognized in 2003 during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) outbreaks and subsequent Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreaks."
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Marra, Alexandre R.; Edmond, Michael B.; Popescu, Saskia V. . . .
2020
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RT-PCR Tests for SARS-COV-2 Processed at a Large Italian Hospital and False-Negative Results Among Confirmed COVID-19 Cases
From the Document: "In Italy, the first autochthonous case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was detected on February 21, 2020. By mid April 2020, >15,000 persons had been infected in the country and >20,000 had died. More than 1 million upper respiratory specimens were collected through nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swabs2 for infection confirmation or screening purposes. The proportion of the population with confirmed infection varies across the 20 Italian regions, as does the number of swabs collected per population unit. Real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is used to test for severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the specimens collected through swabs, as recommended by the World Health Organization for clinical management and outbreak control purposes. It is currently the gold standard for the etiological diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection."
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Valent, Francesca; Doimo, Anna; Mazzilis, Giada . . .
2020
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How COVID-19 is Changing the World: A Statistical Perspective
From the Introduction: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has turned the world upside down. [...] Throughout this crisis, the international statistics community has continued to work together, in partnership with national statistical offices and systems around the world to ensure that the best quality data and statistics are available to support decision making during and after the crisis. [...] The statistics presented in this report are unprecedented. We are witnessing data points and inflections in trends that would have been unimaginable only a few months ago. New statistical records are being set on an almost weekly basis. By the end of April, 212 countries, territories or areas had reported confirmed cases of COVID-19. In the first four months of 2020, more than 3 million cases of infection had been confirmed and more than 210,000 deaths. Some startling economic numbers include a 9% year-on-year fall in global production and manufacturing output, nowcasts that the value of global merchandise trade will fall by almost 27% in Q2 [Quarter 2] 2020, the largest fall in global commodity prices on record (-20.4% between February and March 2020). On the social side, we see the shocking loss of employment - a decline of almost 10.5% in total working hours, the equivalent of 305 million full-time workers. Some 1.6 billion students have been affected by school closures and the crisis will push an additional 40 - 60 million people into extreme poverty."
Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities
2020
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Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Mental Health in the Elderly: Perspective from a Psychogeriatric Clinic at a Tertiary Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil
From the Document: "Recent studies emphasize the high frequency of subsyndromal mental abnormalities in the general population during the new coronavirus pandemic, affecting up to one-third of the exposed individuals (Rajkumar, 2020). These manifestations can be represented by a simple increase in the selfperception of stress, but also by a higher prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms, sleep complaints and relapse of pre-existing psychiatric disorders (Pfefferbaum and North, 2020). This perspective has been depicted by early population studies conducted in eastern Asia in the first months of the pandemic but seems to be replicable in Western countries as well. In Brazil, much attention is being paid to this secondary but not less important wave of morbidity. The rapidly progressive dissemination of the viral infection causing a consistent growth of incidence rates, along with the high clinical severity of a substantial proportion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, may warrant the outburst of a true mental health crisis in the general population. To date, scientific publications addressing mental health issues in the Brazilian COVID-19 pandemic have focused on its impact on mental health professionals (Ornell 'et al.', 2020), and no systematic evaluation of the mental state of the elderly population has been made so far."
International Psychogeriatric Association
Forlenza, Orestes V.; Stella, Florindo
2020
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To Follow or Not to Follow: Social Norms and Civic Duty During a Pandemic
From the Document: "The outbreak of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has put substantial pressure on individuals to adapt and change their behaviours. As the hope of a vaccine remains at least a year away, everyone is urged to take action to slow the spread of the virus. Thus, 'flattening the curve' has become vital in preventing medical systems from being overrun, and it relies on massive collective action by citizens to follow specific public health measures such as physical distancing, hand washing, and physical isolation for vulnerable individuals. Despite the recommendations, the public has often been confronted with the reality that some individuals are not respecting them, including elected officials. [...] In this article, we explore the effects of civic duty and social norms on adherence to public health recommendations. We find that civic duty promotes following health recommendations and that norms become important in the absence of duty."
Cambridge University Press
Bourgeois, Laura French; Stephenson, Laura Beth, 1976-; Harell, Allison
2020
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Issue Guide: COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing, Considerations for Using Digital Technologies
From the Executive Summary: "As communities relax stay-at-home orders and ramp up testing, the public health system is seeing increases in COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases. Until vaccines are broadly available, the primary ways of preventing transmission of COVID-19 include interventions such as case investigation, contact tracing, social distancing, and isolation and quarantine. Case investigation and contact tracing are well-established public health functions that have been implemented for many diseases like Ebola, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and tuberculosis. However, the scale and speed needed for COVID-19 is unprecedented. An extensive and swift expansion of the case investigation and contact tracing workforce--paired with continuous evaluation to ensure effectiveness--is needed to adequately respond to rising caseloads and rapid investigation cycles. To complement this time-tested, workforce-based solution, technology companies have been engaging with various public health experts to develop new tools that could aid in COVID-19 response efforts. Public health officials may choose to incorporate solutions that can augment and support case investigation and contact tracing while also protecting privacy."
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (U.S.)
2020?
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Global Order After COVID-19
From the Introduction: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is the most disruptive global event since the Great Depression and World War 2. At least 4.8 million people have been infected in less than six months; more than 300,000 have died, and many more deaths will occur even if effective vaccines or treatments are eventually developed. The economic costs are staggering: much of the world has fallen into recession, debt levels are soaring, and future growth prospects have dimmed. It is in some ways the first fully global crisis in human history, one from which no country can remain aloof. Yet despite these far-reaching effects, the current pandemic will not transform the essential nature of world politics."
Institut für Sicherheitspolitik
Walt, Stephen M., 1955-
2020
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COVID-19: Defining an Invisible Enemy Within Healthcare and the Community
From the Document: "The rapid dissemination of severe respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) throughout the globe has been declared a pandemic. A lack of national and internationally agreed case definitions for healthcare-associated coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to inconsistencies in describing epidemiology, which limit comparisons. [...] Recent NHS [National Health Service] England guidance recommends screening all emergency hospital admissions on admission followed by a single repeat, for those testing negative, between 5 and 7 days after admission. Our data demonstrate that healthcare-associated COVID-19 has contributed an important number of cases patients during the height of a pandemic. Sequential screening of non-COVID-19 hospitalized patients beyond this, possibly on a weekly basis up to 14 days after hospital discharge, may prove beneficial in further reducing the threat posed by SARS-CoV-2. Further validation of proposed definitions is required and according to the evolution of CDI [Clostridium difficile infection] definitions, amendments are likely."
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Musa, Saif A.; Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Paget, Stephanie . . .
2020
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Guide to the Ethics of Surveillance and Quarantine for Novel Coronavirus
From the Document: "The UK Government has declared the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) to be a serious and imminent threat to public health. [...] This step gives government authorities additional legal powers to control the disease, such as restricting people's movement. The Department of Health and Social Care has said that people infected with novel coronavirus could now be forcibly quarantined and not allowed to leave, and could be forcibly sent into isolation if they posed a threat to public health."
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
2020?
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Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault During the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Document: "Responding to crimes against persons is considered an essential function of policing. Victims of sexual assault may face greater barriers to reporting crimes, accessing help, and obtaining support due to public health orders such as stay-at-home mandates during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. Despite the inherent difficulties of a global pandemic, law enforcement agencies can incorporate flexibility and innovation into both current and cold case sexual assault response efforts to ensure they are meeting the complex needs of victims, while also meeting the safety requirements of agency personnel, collaborating partners, and community members. Agency leaders should consider the following modified practices outlined in this tool to ensure agency personnel are able to safely perform essential duties related to sexual assault crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic."
International Association of Chiefs of Police
2020?
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Support for Rehabilitation Self-Management After COVID-19- Related Illness
From the Document: "This leaflet provides basic exercises and advice for adults who have been severely unwell and admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]."
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
2020
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COVID-19 Technical Mission of Experts to Tajikistan: 1-11 May 2020
From the Executive Summary: "The observations and recommendations in this report are based on the review of normative and technical documents provided by the Government of Tajikistan and, specifically, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Population, site visits, meetings and discussions conducted during the 10-day WHO [World Health Organization] technical mission."
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
2020
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Key Research Question: Besides Home Self-Isolation, and Use of Centralized Voluntary Isolation Centers, Are There Any Other Evidence Based Strategies (eg: Wearing Masks Within the Home; Additional Cleaning; Testing, Other) That Have Been Used to Successfully Control Focal COVID-19 Outbreaks in Other Settings?
From the Context: "[1] COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] outbreaks have occurred in a variety of settings, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, cruise-ships, places of worship, and foreign-worker dormitories [2] Any setting where physical distancing cannot be optimally maintained is a potential site for an outbreak--the risk for a COVID19 outbreak is further increased if those at the site have COVID19 risk factors such as advanced age or underlying co-morbidities [3] Recently, in Alberta, there have been outbreaks associated with LTC [long-term care] facilities, meat packing plants, and homeless shelters."
Alberta Health Services
Asadi, Leyla
2020
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School Mental Health Crisis Leadership Lessons: 'Voices of Experience from Leaders in the Pacific Southwest Region'
From the Introduction: "Every day, leaders working in and with school systems and communities navigate unpredictable events. These events are called 'crises' when they exceed a threshold of harm. Crises are moments, events, or experiences that call our assumptions into question. When they occur, crises surface the unexplored and the undiscussed: everything comes out during a crisis. Through crises, we learn what we were truly prepared for and how well-supported we are by existing training, resources, and response plans. We learn which students are well-served by our school and which students we marginalize. [...] Crisis leaders need to understand the physical and psychological disruptions that are a common consequence of trauma. Trauma interrupts our ability to maintain a coherent narrative that explains our world and our place within it. We as humans need a worldview of ourselves and each other that makes sense to us. This sense-making narrative helps us interpret the past, negotiate the present, and move comfortably into the future. One of the functions of a crisis is that it interrupts our regular story: trauma can pause our bodies and brains at the moment of harm. We need crisis leaders to help us create meaning from our trauma experiences, which then helps our bodies and brains integrate the crisis into our larger story. Storytelling and reflection are essential to our collective crisis healing."
Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network
Wolf-Prusan, Leora
2020
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Epidemic Analysis for Response Decision-Making: Systematic Organization of Multi-Source Information to Inform Response Decisions
From the Document: "Epidemic analysis for response decision-making (ERD) is a practical process for informing response decisions by systematically, logically and clearly organizing multi-source information to optimize assessment. ERD begins when decision-makers must decide between a few defined response options, which generally ask either: 'Do we need to increase our response?' OR 'Can we reduce our response?' Such questions arise after an epidemic or a public health event has begun, and they continue to arise throughout the course of the event. Decision-makers consider multiple factors (for instance, financial, political, sociocultural or epidemiological) when deciding among response options, and ERD helps to inform the epidemiological considerations by synthesizing the epidemiological information. It also helps to identify information that should be collected for similar events in the future."
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Matthew Griffith, Matthew
2020
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Psychogeriatric Research During COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Analysis of Participant Views
From the Document: "Conducting clinical research during pandemics is critical not only for the management of the ongoing pandemic but also for future pandemic preparedness. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a large integrated health organization and a major sponsor of patient-centered research, is a key player in shaping the conduct of psychogeriatric research in the USA. Sponsored by the VA Office of Research and Development (ORD), VA investigators are involved in over 7,000 funded research projects and often focus on psychogeriatric patient-centered research due to the demographics of Veterans and their family caregivers (ORD, 2020). Hence, it is important to understand how the ORD is handling clinical research during the current pandemic."
Cambridge University Press
Lum, Hillary D.; Padala, Kalpana P.; Dean, Kim T. . . .
2020
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Fighting Fear in Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Document: "The current global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is unprecedented and has stressed healthcare systems worldwide. Healthcare resources that are scarce include tests for severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), personal protective equipment (PPE), hospital equipment (ventilators), hospital capacity, and healthcare workers (HCWs), particularly those trained to care for the critically ill. Unfortunately, amid the pandemic and these shortages, anxiety and fear are rampant, fueled by real risk and amplified by the 24-hour news feed and social media. The risk of acquiring infection is innate to health care; it always has been and, for the foreseeable future, will continue to be. Therefore, effective infection prevention practices are paramount to both ensuring safety and combatting fear. However, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, deviations in proven preventative measures and standard care are common. Variations in PPE use (eg, utilizing N95 respirators for minimal risk encounters) or deferring critical, life-saving procedures (ie, due to lack of confidence in validated diagnostic test performance or PPE efficacy) increase the overall risk to HCWs and patients alike. The reason these variations exist must be explored, and we postulate fear as a significant factor."
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Cawcutt, Kelly; Starlin, Richard; Rupp, Mark E.
2020
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Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak and Geropsychiatric Care for Older Adults: A View from Turkey
From the Introduction: "This paper focuses on Turkey's fight against the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, the problems in geropsychiatric care, and their solutions encountered during the period of social isolation of older adults. The precautions to be taken during the outbreak, which seems to have a dynamic process, may change rapidly. This challenge may continue until we have a coronavirus vaccine."
International Psychogeriatric Association
Naharci, Mehmet Ilkin; Katipoglu, Bilal; Tasci, Ilker
2020
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Factors Associated with the Duration of Hospitalisation Among COVID-19 Patients in Vietnam: A Survival Analysis
From the Abstract Background: "The median duration of hospital stays due to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has been reported in several studies on China as 10-13 days. Global studies have indicated that the length of hospitalisation depends on different factors, such as the time elapsed from exposure to symptom onset, and from symptom onset to hospital admission, as well as specificities of the country under study. The goal of this paper is to identify factors associated with the median duration of hospital stays of COVID-19 patients during the second COVID-19 wave that hit Vietnam from 5 March to 8 April 2020."
Cambridge University Press
Thai, Pham Quang
2020
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COVID-19 Health Worries and Anxiety Symptoms Among Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Ageism
From the Abstract: "A prominent feature of anxiety in late life is concerns regarding physical health. Anxiety symptoms among older adults have been connected with various psychological outcomes, including social isolation and loneliness. During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many societies have demonstrated increased ageist attitudes, encouraging older adults to distance themselves from society. Accordingly, the current study examined the moderating role of COVID-19-related ageism in the connection between COVID-19 health worries and anxiety symptoms among older adults. Data were collected from 243 older adults (age range 60-92; M = 69.75, SD = 6.69), who completed scales assessing COVID-19-related health worries and ageism, as well as anxiety symptoms. The results demonstrated that both health worries and ageism were positively associated with anxiety symptoms. Moreover, the connection between health worries and anxiety symptoms was more pronounced among older adults with high ageism levels. The study highlights the vulnerability of older adults in general, and ageist older adults in particular, to the negative consequences of COVID-19-related health worries, and emphasizes the role of the increased ageist stance of society during the pandemic in this regard."
International Psychogeriatric Association
Bergman, Yoav S.; Cohen-Fridel, Sara; Shrira, Amit . . .
2020
