A5035539478- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Economic and Technological Innovation
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center
2023-2025
Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination
2022-2023
Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic showed distinct waves where cases ebbed and flowed. While each country had slight, nuanced differences, lessons from wave with country-specific details provides important for prevention, understanding medical outcomes the role of vaccines. This paper compares key characteristics five different in Pakistan. Methods Data was sourced daily national situation reports (Sitreps) prepared by National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) Islamabad. We use specific...
Abstract Objective: To assess the impact of treatment guidelines on trends outpatient antibiotic prescription among pediatric and adult patients at a cancer center in Pakistan. Design: Retrospective observational study conducted between July 1 st 2018 31 2023. Methods: We determined indication for antibiotics frequency guideline-discordant prescriptions upper respiratory tract infection (URTI), lower (LRTI), urinary (UTI), diarrhea. The χ 2 test was used to prescribed these indications....
Closing schools to control COVID-19 transmission has been globally debated, with concerns about children's education and well-being, also because of the varied effectiveness intervention in studies across world. This paper aims determine effect school closure policy on incidence Pakistan. A Difference-in-Differences (DiD) analysis compared changes cities that completely (Islamabad) partially (Peshawar) closed during second wave Effects closing (November 2020) reopening (February 2021) were...
In 2020, Pakistan faced the formidable challenge of COVID-19 pandemic with an existing yet disjointed healthcare infrastructure, that included by over 18,000 public and estimated 75,000 private health facilities some elements epidemic surveillance response system. This descriptive study examines how developed a response, driven establishing central coordination decision-making mechanism to overcome these systemic challenges.
Introduction: Pakistan has been experiencing an extensively drug-resistant (XDR) outbreak of typhoid for some years. We sought to evaluate how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted epidemiology in Pakistan, from beginning 2020 through end 2022, and reduction cases. Methodology: compared national public data with retrospectively obtained patient confirmed S. Typhi isolates between January 2019 December 2022 Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital Research Centre hospital’s extended network...
Schools were closed all over Pakistan on November 26, 2020 to reduce community transmission of COVID-19 and reopened between January 18 February 1, 2021. However, these closures associated with significant economic social costs, prompting a review effectiveness school the spread infections in developing country like Pakistan. A single-group interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) was used measure impact closures, as well reopening schools, daily new cases 6 major cities across Pakistan:...
Abstract Schools were closed all over Pakistan on November 26, 2020 to reduce community transmission of COVID-19 and reopened between January 18 February 1, 2021. However, these closures associated with significant economic social costs, prompting a review effectiveness school the spread infections in developing country like Pakistan. A single-group interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) was used measure impact closures, as well reopening schools daily new cases 6 major cities across...