Higher sensitivity of Xpert MTB/RIF ultra over tuberculosis culture for the diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis with open or computed tomography–guided biopsies. Waters, R., Laubscher, M., Dunn, R. N, Adikary, N., Coussens, A. K, & Held, M. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11(1):ofad621, Oxford Academic, jan, 2024.
Higher sensitivity of Xpert MTB/RIF ultra over tuberculosis culture for the diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis with open or computed tomography–guided biopsies [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Aim: T o investigate changes in psychological distress in community dwelling older adults before and during the COID 19 pandemic, and the contribution of frailty transitions and multimorbidity in predicting the psychological distress. Methods: P rospective repeated measures cohort study on a sample of participants aged 60 and over . A tota l of 2, 785 respondents at the baseline ( May 2019 ) were followed during the COVID 19 August 2020 The change s in psychological distress before and during the COVID 19 w ere assessed using generalized estimation equations with adjusting for sex, age, education, economic status, marital status, tea drinking status, smoking status, alcohol drinking status, sedentary time, sleep quality and ADL Results: The psychological distress of older people has significantly increase d i n August 2020 compared with May 2019. Both older adults who remained frail and transitioned into frail state reported more psychological distress during the COVID 19 . Similarly, both pre existing multimorbidity and emerging multimorbidity groups were associated with more psychological distress. The group of frailty progression who reported new emerging multimorbidity showed more increase in psychological distress, in comparison with those remained non frail state who reported no multimorbidity. Conclus ion: P sychological distress has increased among the community dwelling older adults during the COVID 19 pandemic , and s ustained and progressive frail state, as well as multimorbidity were all associated with a greater increase of psychological distress . Th ese findings suggest that future public health measures should take into account the increased psychological distress among older people during the COVID 19 pandemic , and the assessment of frailty and multimorbidity might help in warning of psychological distress.
@article{Waters2024,
abstract = {Aim: T o investigate changes in psychological distress in community dwelling older adults before and during the COID 19 pandemic, and the contribution of frailty transitions and multimorbidity in predicting the psychological distress. Methods: P rospective repeated measures cohort study on a sample of participants aged 60 and over . A tota l of 2, 785 respondents at the baseline ( May 2019 ) were followed during the COVID 19 August 2020 The change s in psychological distress before and during the COVID 19 w ere assessed using generalized estimation equations with adjusting for sex, age, education, economic status, marital status, tea drinking status, smoking status, alcohol drinking status, sedentary time, sleep quality and ADL Results: The psychological distress of older people has significantly increase d i n August 2020 compared with May 2019. Both older adults who remained frail and transitioned into frail state reported more psychological distress during the COVID 19 . Similarly, both pre existing multimorbidity and emerging multimorbidity groups were associated with more psychological distress. The group of frailty progression who reported new emerging multimorbidity showed more increase in psychological distress, in comparison with those remained non frail state who reported no multimorbidity. Conclus ion: P sychological distress has increased among the community dwelling older adults during the COVID 19 pandemic , and s ustained and progressive frail state, as well as multimorbidity were all associated with a greater increase of psychological distress . Th ese findings suggest that future public health measures should take into account the increased psychological distress among older people during the COVID 19 pandemic , and the assessment of frailty and multimorbidity might help in warning of psychological distress.},
author = {Waters, Robyn and Laubscher, Maritz and Dunn, Robert N and Adikary, Nawaal and Coussens, Anna K and Held, Michael},
doi = {10.1093/OFID/OFAD621},
file = {:C$\backslash$:/Users/01462563/AppData/Local/Mendeley Ltd./Mendeley Desktop/Downloaded/Waters et al. - 2024 - Higher sensitivity of Xpert MTBRIF ultra over tuberculosis culture for the diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis with.pdf:pdf},
issn = {23288957},
journal = {Open Forum Infectious Diseases},
keywords = {Mycobacterium tuberculosis,OA,diagnosis,fund{\_}ack,original,spinal tuberculosis,tuberculosis,tuberculosis diagnosis},
mendeley-tags = {OA,fund{\_}ack,original},
month = {jan},
number = {1},
pages = {ofad621},
publisher = {Oxford Academic},
title = {{Higher sensitivity of Xpert MTB/RIF ultra over tuberculosis culture for the diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis with open or computed tomography–guided biopsies}},
url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad621},
volume = {11},
year = {2024}
}

Downloads: 0