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Hospital support and leadership from bedside clinicians were the primary facilitators for successful implementation of prone positioning for COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome, researchers reported.

Invasive mechanical ventilation improved 30-day survival in patients with advanced dementia hospitalized with pneumonia compared with noninvasive ventilation, despite lack of 1-year survival benefit and higher health care costs.

In a new study published in Pediatrics, researchers concluded that children with asthma have similar risk for for SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with children without asthma.

A new study highlighted an increase in adult and pediatric mechanical ventilators reported by acute care hospitals in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with 2019.

Among U.S. adults, there was an immediate decrease in smoking-cessation activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data published in JAMA Network Open.

In a new study, ventilator-associated pneumonia-related mortality was higher among patients with COVID-19 compared with those without COVID-19, with more than 9% of overall mortality attributable to ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Dementia cases in the United States were largely associated with modifiable risk factors, such as hypertension, obesity and physical inactivity — especially among Black and Hispanic people, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

In a new study, data made available upon admission identified about 80% of patients with COVID-19 who had low-risk pneumonia.

Racial inequities in health care have fluctuated in severity for decades but data show that one constant remains: the disparities persist.

Smartphone-guided recommendations and instructions for self-prone positioning failed to promote adherence among nonintubated patients with COVID-19, according to findings published in Chest.