COVID-19 in the RCP journals

Visit the RCP journals to access the latest articles relating to COVID-19, including original research, concise reviews with the latest tools and advice to improve your practice, reports on innovative ways to deliver care, clinical case studies, and analysis of the most urgent issues facing clinicians and leaders.

Click the links to individual articles below, or visit www.rcpjournals.org/covid-19 for additional content as soon as it is published. Don’t forget to follow the journals on Twitter (@Clin_Med and @FutureHealthJ) to keep up to date with the latest discussion.

If you have COVID-19 content you would like to submit for rapid peer review, please see the author guidance for Clinical Medicine and the Future Healthcare Journal.

• Remodelling of specialist services enables safe reduction in hospital admissions of patients with sickle cell disease: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

• Chief registrars: Leading in a time of COVID-19

• Exposure of hospital healthcare workers to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)

• C-reactive protein and albumin association with mortality of hospitalised SARS-CoV-2 patients: A tertiary hospital experience

• How COVID-19 has changed the unselected medical take: an observational study

• Restarting training and examinations in the era of COVID-19: a perspective from the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians UK

• How COVID-19 has changed the unselected medical take: an observational study

• Virtual visiting and other technological adaptations for critical care

• Establishing a remote clinical advice service during the COVID-19 pandemic

• The clinical sensitivity of a single SARS-CoV-2 upper respiratory tract RT-PCR test for diagnosing COVID-19 using convalescent antibody as a comparator

• Evaluation of a patient self-stratification methodology to identify those in need of shielding during COVID-19

• Coronavirus in the elderly: a late lockdown UK cohort

• Respiratory specialists working in different ways: Development of a GP hotline and respiratory support service during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Inhaled and systemic heparin as a repurposed direct antiviral drug for prevention and treatment of COVID-19

• Antiviral treatment for COVID-19: the evidence supporting remdesivir

• Collaborative working on a 7-day rota reduces length of stay

• Patient perspectives on social-media-delivered telemedicine for inflammatory bowel disease

• Dying ‘due to’ or ‘with’ COVID-19: a cause of death analysis in hospitalised patients

• React, reset and restore: Adaptation of a large inflammatory bowel disease service during COVID-19 pandemic

• Nosocomial spread of COVID-19: lessons learned from an audit on a stroke/neurology ward in a UK district general hospital

• Predictive model of increased mortality and bed occupancy if thrombolysis becomes the initial treatment strategy for STEMI during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

• Managing high-acuity outpatient services during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from the acute diabetes foot service

• COVID-19 pandemic personal development plan: A model for maximising higher specialty training

• Communication in the time of COVID

• Refusal of viral testing during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

• Characteristics and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 at a district general hospital in Surrey, UK

• Keep calm and carry on learning: using Microsoft Teams to deliver a medical education programme during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Experience of a novel community testing programme for COVID-19 in London: Lessons learnt

• Improving wellbeing among UK doctors redeployed during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Complete blood count might help to identify subjects with high probability of testing positive to SARS-CoV-2

• Should chest compressions be considered an aerosol-generating procedure? A literature review in response to recent guidelines on personal protective equipment for patients with suspected COVID-19

• Potential role of endothelial cell surface ectopic redox complexes in COVID-19 disease pathogenesis

• Recorded infection control messages delay inter-professional communication but are not associated with COVID-19 prevalence or mortality: insights from a national switchboard analysis

• Remodelling elective hospital services in the COVID-19 era – designing the new normal

• Von Willebrand factor (vWF): marker of endothelial damage and thrombotic risk in COVID-19?

• Should point-of-care ultrasound become part of healthcare worker testing for COVID?

• Peer support for junior doctors: a positive outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic?

• The potential impacts of obesity on COVID-19

• Rostering in a pandemic: Sustainability is key

• Rehabilitation after COVID-19: an evidence-based approach

• Epilepsy care in the COVID-19 era

• Guillain–Barré syndrome associated with leptomeningeal enhancement following SARS-CoV-2 infection

• Restarting gastrointestinal endoscopy in the deceleration and early recovery phases of COVID-19 pandemic: Guidance from the British Society of Gastroenterology

• Does vitamin D deficiency increase the severity of COVID-19?

• Abrupt deterioration and pulmonary embolism in COVID-19: a case report

• Prone positioning in conscious patients on medical wards: A review of the evidence and its relevance to patients with COVID-19 infection

• The contributions of NHS healthcare workers who are shielding or working from home during COVID-19

• Harnessing the power of social media to support medical training during COVID-19

• SARS-CoV-2 serology: Test, test, test, but interpret with caution!

• Care of the dying person before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A quality improvement project

• COVID-19 recognition and digital risk stratification

• Utilising video technology in the cardiac catheter lab and operating theatre during the COVID-19 pandemic

• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on renal transplantation in the UK

• Use of an antiviral filter attached to a pleural drain bottle to prevent aerosol contamination with SARS-CoV-2

• Cross-skilling training to support medical redeployment in the COVID-19 pandemic

• COVID-19-associated pneumomediastinum

• COVID-19 and diabetes: What have we learned so far?

• The I in COVID: The importance of community and patient involvement in COVID-19 research

• Low-fidelity simulation of medical emergency and cardiac arrest responses in a suspected COVID-19 patient – an interim report

• Thrombotic risk in COVID-19: a case series and case–control study

• Low-fidelity simulation of medical emergency and cardiac arrest responses in a suspected COVID-19 patient – an interim report

• The renin–angiotensin system – a therapeutic target in COVID-19?

• Radiology department preparedness for COVID-19 – experience of a central-London hospital

• Innovative use of artificial intelligence and digital communication in acute stroke pathway in response to COVID-19

• Lung ultrasound in the monitoring of COVID-19 infection

• Lessons of the month 1: A case of rhombencephalitis as a rare complication of acute COVID-19 infection
   
• Identifying rheumatic disease patients at high risk and requiring shielding during the COVID-19 pandemic
   
• Respiratory advice for the non-respiratory physician in the time of COVID-19
   
• Drive-through testing in COVID-19: experience from NHS Lothian
   
• Early intervention likely improves mortality in COVID-19 infection
   
• Evaluating the national PPE guidance for NHS healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
   
• SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the cardiovascular system: What the non-cardiologist needs to know
   
• UK neurology response to the COVID-19 crisis
   
• Working from home in medicine during coronavirus: What equipment do you need to get started and what can you do to help from home?
   
• Palliative care in the context of a pandemic: similar but different
   
• A comprehensive hospital agile preparedness (CHAPs) tool for pandemic preparedness, based on the COVID-19 experience
   
• Nutritional status and COVID-19: an opportunity for lasting change?
   
• COVID-19 patients presenting with afebrile acute abdominal pain
   
• COVID-19 – does exercise prescription and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) have a role in risk-stratifying patients?
   
• Chloroquine and COVID-19 – a potential game changer?
   
• The role of the future physician: building on shifting sands
   
• Consolidating malignant pleural and peritoneal services during the COVID-19 response
   
• What we know so far: COVID-19 current clinical knowledge and research