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Objective
We assessed the association of early statin initiation with inpatient mortality among hospitalised COVID-19 patients.

Design, setting and participants
This observational study emulated a hypothetical target trial using electronic health records data from Northwestern Medicine Health System, Illinois, 2020–2022. We included patients who were ≥40 years, admitted ≥48 hours for COVID-19 from March 2020 to August 2022 and had no evidence of statin use before admission.

Interventions
Individuals who initiated any statins within 48 hours of admission were compared with individuals who did not initiate statins during this period.

Primary outcome measures
Inpatient mortality at hospital days 7, 14, 21 and 28 were determined using hospital records. Risk differences between exposure groups were calculated using augmented inverse propensity weighting (AIPW) with SuperLearner.

Results
A total of 8893 individuals (24.5% early statin initiators) were included. Early initiators tended to be older, male and have higher comorbidity burdens. Unadjusted day 28 mortality was higher in early initiators (6.0% vs 3.6%). Adjusted analysis showed slightly higher inpatient mortality risk at days 7 (RD: 0.5%, 95% CI: 0.2 to 0.8) and 21 (RD: 0.6%, 95% CI: 0.04 to 1.1), but not days 14 (RD: 0.4%, 95% CI: –0.03 to 0.9) and 28 (RD: 0.4%, 95% CI: –0.2 to 1.1). Sensitivity analyses using alternative modelling approaches showed no difference between groups.

Conclusions
Early statin initiation was not associated with lower mortality contrasting with findings of previous observational studies. Trial emulation helped in identifying and addressing sources of bias incompletely addressed by previous work. Statin use may be indicated for other conditions but not COVID-19.

Annals of Internal Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Annals of Internal Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Annals of Internal Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Annals of Internal Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Deaths from COVID-19 dropped by about 69% last year, decreasing from roughly 246 000 deaths in 2022 to 76 000 in 2023, according to provisional data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This shifted COVID-19 from the 4th leading cause of death in 2022 to the 10th, researchers noted in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Since 2021, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has enrolled 90 000 people across more than 200 clinical sites as part of its RECOVER initiative to understand, identify, and treat post–COVID-19 condition, also known as long COVID. One goal of these studies has been to discover biomarkers that can help diagnose long COVID because symptoms are so wide-ranging. Recently, though, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that routine laboratory tests are unlikely to help achieve that goal.

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Objectives
To estimate the interaction between economic status (ES) and healthy lifestyle in long COVID among Chinese older people infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Design
A cross-sectional study based on the Peking University Health Cohort in Anning, Yunnan.

Setting
All primary health institutions in Anning, Yunnan Province, China, from April to May 2023.

Participants
A total of 4804 people aged 60 and older infected with SARS-CoV-2 were included in this study.

Primary and secondary outcome measures
Long COVID was measured by participants’ self-reported symptoms using structured questionnaires. ES was measured by last-month personal income, and participants’ ES was defined as low if their income was below the per capita monthly income of local residents. Lifestyle score was equal to the number of healthy behaviours (including smoking, drinking, weight, exercise and diet) and grouped using the median score as the cut-off point. Univariate and multivariate logistic models were employed to estimate the association of ES with long COVID. Interaction between ES and lifestyle in long COVID was assessed by multiplicative interaction term.

Results
We enrolled a total of 4804 participants infected with SARS-CoV-2, of whom 57.3% (2754 of 4804) had at least one long COVID symptom. Fatigue (1546, 56.1%), cough (1263, 45.9%) and muscle pain (880, 32.0%) were the top three common symptoms. Patients with low ES had a 48% (adjusted OR: 1.48; 95% CI 1.22, 1.82) increased risk of long COVID. A significant interaction was observed between ES and lifestyle (p value for interaction

Objectives
The global prevalence of mental health disorders has risen significantly since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has additionally caused disruption to mental health services, leading to a shift from in-person to remote service delivery. Given its long-term impact, it has become critical to evaluate whether changes in health delivery during the pandemic have had an effect on prescribing patterns for commonly prescribed psychotropic drugs. This study aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changes in psychotropic prescribing patterns in adults, as well as differences in prescribing in different healthcare delivery approaches across various geographical contexts.

Design and eligibility requirements
Systematic review of cohort, interrupted time-series and cross-sectional studies examining prescribing trends for at least one commonly prescribed psychotropic drug during and after COVID-19 in accessing care remotely or face to face between 1 January 2020 and 17 June 2022.

Data sources
MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, HMIC and PsycINFO databases were searched in addition to citation chaining of relevant reviews.

Extraction and analysis
Study screening, data extraction and quality assessment were completed by two independent reviewers. The PECO strategy was used to devise the systematic review and findings were synthesised narratively.

Results
16 studies were eligible for inclusion. Studies documenting changes in psychotropic prescribing trends provided very conflicting findings. There were no stark differences in prescribing outcomes between different healthcare delivery methods (ie, face-to-face consultations vs remote consultations). A noteworthy finding was that the prescribing rate of benzodiazepines was higher in women than men. No particular trends were observed for the prescription rates of hypnotics, antidepressants or antipsychotics.

Conclusions
Findings support mixed trends in the prescription of psychotropic medications in a range of settings, hindering conclusive statements on COVID-19’s impact on prescribing. In areas where remote consultations are in use, more comprehensive research is required to assess the safety of prescribing in these settings to inform public health policy and assess if the observed trends in our systematic review persist over time (given the increased consideration of remote and telehealth care in delivering services), particularly the safe and effective deployment of these services.

Introduction
The pandemic has highlighted a worsening of nurses’ working conditions and a global nursing shortage. Little is known about the factors, strategies and interventions that improve nurse retention in the peri-COVID and post-COVID time period. An improved understanding of approaches implemented to support and retain nurses will provide a blueprint for sustaining the nursing workforce. The objectives of this scoping review are to investigate and describe the following: (a) factors associated with nurse retention; (b) strategies suggested to support nurse retention and (c) interventions trialled to support nurse retention, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods and analysis
Medline, Embase, CINAHL and Scopus will be searched. The included studies will be qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods and grey literature studies of nurses including factors, strategies and/or interventions to support nurse retention in the peri-COVID and post-COVID time period (2019 to present) that are in English or can be translated into English. The excluded studies will be those that focus on nurse managers, educators, students or those in advanced practice roles and studies where the population cannot be segmented to identify which data came from nurses. Systematic, scoping reviews and meta-syntheses will be excluded, but their reference lists will be hand-screened for suitable studies. Data will be evaluated for quality and synthesised qualitatively to map the current evidence available. The relevant studies will be reported using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews.

Ethics and dissemination
Approval for the broader research study, including this scoping review, has been obtained from the university health sciences research board (protocol #00042510). All data for this scoping review will be collected from published literature, and findings will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at relevant conferences.

Trial registration number
The protocol was registered on Open Science Framework (4 April 2024) https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/XWH45.