item: #1 of 41 id: cord-005129-2e6b5tm2 author: Chaudhry, Mamoona title: Prospective study of avian influenza H9 infection in commercial poultry farms of Punjab Province and Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan date: 2016-10-20 words: 2760 flesch: 50 summary: Poultry farm in this cluster has a significantly higher risk of being infected as compared to poultry farms outside the cluster (RR = 7.67). key: cord-005129-2e6b5tm2 authors: Chaudhry, Mamoona; Ahmad, Maqbool; Rashid, Hamad Bin; Sultan, Bakhat; Chaudhry, Haroon Rashid; Riaz, Aayesha; Shaheen, Muhammad Shabir title: Prospective study of avian influenza H9 infection in commercial poultry farms of Punjab Province and Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan date: 2016-10-20 journal: keywords: aiv; analysis; areas; avian; biosecurity; birds; cases; chaudhry; clustering; commercial; data; different; disease; district; et al; factors; farms; february; h5n1; h9n2; high; important; infected; infection; influenza; kasur; laboratory; outbreaks; pakistan; pathogenic; poultry; risk; samples; spatial; study; time; virus; viruses cache: cord-005129-2e6b5tm2.txt plain text: cord-005129-2e6b5tm2.txt item: #2 of 41 id: cord-017731-xzfo5jjq author: Todd, Ewen C. D. title: Foodborne Disease in the Middle East date: 2016-11-25 words: 25397 flesch: 48 summary: key: cord-017731-xzfo5jjq authors: Todd, Ewen C. D. title: Foodborne Disease in the Middle East date: 2016-11-25 journal: Water, Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48920-9_17 sha: doc_id: 17731 cord_uid: xzfo5jjq Food safety is a concern worldwide and according to the World Health Organization, developing countries are probably more at risk of foodborne illness because many of these, including those in the Middle East, have limited disease surveillance and prevention and control strategies. Research has been focused on microbial contamination of locally-sold foodstuffs and manager and employee knowledge of food safety and hygienic conditions in food preparation establishments. keywords: abdominal; action; addition; affected; afghanistan; aflatoxin; agencies; agent; agriculture; aid; analysis; anonymous; april; arabia; areas; associated; attack; august; aureus; authorities; authority; authors; available; azhar; bacillus; bahrain; basic; botulinum; botulism; burden; campylobacter; cases; cats; cause; cereus; cheese; chemical; chicken; children; cholera; civil; closed; clostridium; coli; common; company; complaints; concern; conditions; conflict; consumption; contaminated; contaminated food; contamination; control; cooked; countries; country; critical; crops; data; days; deaths; details; diarrhea; different; disease; drug; east; eastern; education; egypt; egyptian; employees; enteric; establishments; et al; european; example; facilities; factors; family; fever; fish; food; food control; food handlers; food outlets; food poisoning; food safety; food samples; foodborne; foodborne disease; frequent; fresh; fruit; future; gastroenteritis; gastrointestinal; government; growth; gulf; hajj; handlers; hav; health; hepatitis; high; higher; highest; home; hospital; hospitalized; hotel; hummus; hygiene; hygienic; illness; illnesses; implicated; important; incubation; industry; infected; infections; inspection; inspectors; instance; international; investigation; iran; iraq; isolated; israel; issues; items; jordan; kitchen; knowledge; ksa; kuwait; lack; large; law; lebanese; lebanon; levels; likely; limited; local; low; main; major; management; march; meal; meat; medical; mena; middle; milk; ministry; months; near; need; news; norovirus; nov; number; october; officials; old; oman; operations; outbreak; outlets; oversight; pakistan; pathogens; patients; peanuts; people; period; pfa; police; poor; popular; population; positive; possible; practices; preparation; prepared; prevention; processing; production; products; promed; province; public; public health; qatar; quality; rapid; raw; recent; region; regulations; report; residents; resistant; responsible; restaurants; results; rice; risk; rotavirus; salmonella; samples; saudi; security; seeds; september; severe; shigella; shigellosis; short; similar; small; source; specific; specimens; staff; standards; stool; storage; strains; students; studies; study; supplies; surveillance; symptoms; syria; system; tahini; temperature; tend; time; total; tourism; trade; training; turkey; turkish; type; u.s; uae; united; university; vegetables; vehicle; viral; virus; vomiting; war; water; week; workers; world; year; yemen; yoghurt cache: cord-017731-xzfo5jjq.txt plain text: cord-017731-xzfo5jjq.txt item: #3 of 41 id: cord-025667-ta7n2u31 author: Jawaid, Shaukat Ali title: Medical Journal Publishing: Continued struggle is essential to Achieve and maintain standards date: 2020 words: 1645 flesch: 51 summary: Though they usually have a low priority with us but many authors are keen to get their case reports published and it is also the ideal way to start publishing for many young authors. Over the years there has been a progressive increase in the number of papers published from Pakistan because we wish to encourage more Pakistani authors to publish in local journals. keywords: authors; fast; journal; keen; manuscripts; medical; number; pakistan; papers; peer; policy; processing; publication; publishing; reasons; review; sciences; submissions; total; track; year cache: cord-025667-ta7n2u31.txt plain text: cord-025667-ta7n2u31.txt item: #4 of 41 id: cord-030959-olcz7g19 author: Hussain, Ejaz title: China–Pakistan Economic Cooperation: The Case of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) date: 2020-08-28 words: 7150 flesch: 47 summary: Fudan J DOI: 10.1007/s40647-020-00292-5 sha: doc_id: 30959 cord_uid: olcz7g19 This article attempts to underscore the extraordinary significance of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the industrialization and economic growth of Pakistan as well as the development and consolidation of China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)—which is a core component of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). key: cord-030959-olcz7g19 authors: Hussain, Ejaz; Rao, Muhammad Furqan title: China–Pakistan Economic Cooperation: The Case of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) date: 2020-08-28 journal: keywords: addition; article; authorities; balochistan; belt; bilateral; business; certain; challenges; china; chinese; companies; construction; cooperation; corridor; countries; country; cpec; development; economic; economic corridor; economic zones; economy; effective; enforcement; example; export; federal; firms; following; general; global; government; growth; gwadar; human; india; industrial; industrialization; infrastructure; initiative; institutions; investment; law; likely; local; major; minister; modern; multiple; new; number; offer; opportunities; opportunity; order; overall; pakistan; pakistan economic; particular; parties; people; phase; policy; political; potential; prime; production; projects; provincial; punjab; regional; relations; respect; road; second; section; sector; security; set; sezs; size; society; special; special economic; state; strategic; structural; technology; terms; terrorism; trade; workforce; world; years; zones cache: cord-030959-olcz7g19.txt plain text: cord-030959-olcz7g19.txt item: #5 of 41 id: cord-034495-gvtv8o96 author: Hussain, Kashif title: Pharmacy services during COVID-19 pandemic: experience from a tertiary care teaching hospital in Pakistan date: 2020-11-02 words: 2658 flesch: 40 summary: Improving patient safety and work quality involve coordinated efforts of multidisciplinary health care team, including clinical pharmacist as the vital team member. Activities redesigned and now clinical pharmacists are doing round virtually specifically in COVID-19 unit. keywords: activities; care; clinical; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; disease; dosage; dose; drug; event; guidelines; health; hospital; human; label; lead; medications; pakistan; pandemic; patients; pharmaceutical; pharmacists; pharmacy; physicians; possible; public; respiratory; return; review; safety; sars; services; shortage; situation; staff; syndrome; system; team; tertiary; transmission; treatment; unit; use; wards; work cache: cord-034495-gvtv8o96.txt plain text: cord-034495-gvtv8o96.txt item: #6 of 41 id: cord-117800-jzokod4q author: Umer, Hamza title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regional Lockdown Policies in the Containment of Covid-19: Evidence from Pakistan date: 2020-06-04 words: 3623 flesch: 51 summary: Overall, the world is divided regarding the use and effectiveness of lockdown policies. This article offers a systematic contribution to the aforementioned debate by examining the effectiveness of lockdown policies in the containment of Covid-19 in the context of Pakistan. keywords: ajk; analysis; balochistan; cases; complete; countries; country; covid-19; daily; data; deaths; economic; effectiveness; government; health; kpk; level; lockdown; lockdown policies; march; measures; national; number; outcomes; pakistan; partial; people; policies; policy; positive; provinces; public; punjab; regional; regions; regression; religious; restrictions; score; sindh; social; spread; strategies; stringency; table; variables; virus; world cache: cord-117800-jzokod4q.txt plain text: cord-117800-jzokod4q.txt item: #7 of 41 id: cord-221652-rsxw0q0e author: Farooq, Fizza title: Effect of Lockdown on the spread of COVID-19 in Pakistan date: 2020-05-18 words: 1764 flesch: 67 summary: Phase A is before actual lockdown, phase B is a full lockdown, and phase C is smart lockdown or relaxation in lockdown. Table 1 shows the steps taken by the government of Pakistan gradually towards lockdown and smart lockdown. keywords: cases; china; coronavirus; countries; country; covid-19; daily; government; increase; iran; lockdown; march; number; outbreak; pakistan; phase; rate; sars; situation; smart; spread cache: cord-221652-rsxw0q0e.txt plain text: cord-221652-rsxw0q0e.txt item: #8 of 41 id: cord-255376-nqq5ieyg author: Safdar, Muhammad title: COVID‐19: A threat to educated Muslim women's negotiated identity in Pakistan date: 2020-05-08 words: 7042 flesch: 40 summary: Zubair and Zubair (2017) argue through personal narratives of their research participants (Muslim women educated in English literature in Pakistan) that multiple positionalities and identities, like the one seen in Nisa, enable women to negotiate in the third space by being resistive to the local religioculturally defined patriarchal structures and the western concepts of women's autonomy. Through semi‐structured interviews, making an in‐depth comparative study of three differently situated cases (Muslim women), this study argues that the abnormal situation that has ensued from the pandemic has reinforced the vulnerability of women's nascent negotiated identity by landing them in a space where they are supposed by the normative structures to step back to carrying out their traditional responsibilities as ‘good’ wife and mother during the crisis. keywords: action; agency; authors; behaviour; cases; class; containment; covid-19; cultural; daughter; dawn; discourse; domestic; economic; educated; education; experiences; familial; family; feminist; gender; general; good; government; home; household; husband; identities; identity; impacts; independent; lack; laws; like; lives; lockdown; matters; measures; mother; muslim; muslim women; nayab; nisa; normative; pakistan; pandemic; parents; participants; patriarchal; people; position; religion; religious; research; rida; rights; silence; situated; situation; social; society; space; state; step; structures; struggle; study; time; traditional; urban; violence; wife; women; years; zubair cache: cord-255376-nqq5ieyg.txt plain text: cord-255376-nqq5ieyg.txt item: #9 of 41 id: cord-256676-b7p92sb1 author: Syed, Faiza title: Estimation of the Final Size of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Pakistan date: 2020-04-06 words: 1807 flesch: 51 summary: The data on the number of daily reported cases also reflects a general increasing trend as testing for COVID-19 gathers pace (figure 5.2). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.01.20050369 doi: medRxiv preprint The NIH Pakistan data for the cumulative cases and daily reported cases was plotted to observe the increase in number of cases for a period of 33 days. keywords: cases; covid-19; data; day; disease; doi; epidemic; funder; holder; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.01.20050369; infected; infections; license; medrxiv; model; number; pakistan; perpetuity; population; preprint; rate; spread cache: cord-256676-b7p92sb1.txt plain text: cord-256676-b7p92sb1.txt item: #10 of 41 id: cord-258126-8ityzjjh author: Mamun, Mohammed A. title: COVID-19 suicides in Pakistan, dying off not COVID-19 fear but poverty? – The forthcoming economic challenges for a developing country date: 2020-05-11 words: 1491 flesch: 45 summary: This study reports COVID-19 suicide cases in Pakistan for the first time. Besides, the decreasing of German Finance Minister is reported for economic recession suicide case rather than considering the general economic recession victims, that is totally unable to convey the evidence of lockdown-related economic recession suicides among the general people (Thakur & Jain, 2020) . keywords: bangladesh; brain; cases; countries; country; covid-19; crisis; economic; fear; global; health; india; lockdown; mental; pakistan; pandemic; people; present; previous; recession; reports; representative; social; study; suicide; unemployment cache: cord-258126-8ityzjjh.txt plain text: cord-258126-8ityzjjh.txt item: #11 of 41 id: cord-258879-dueab356 author: Imran, Nazish title: Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on postgraduate trainees: a cross-sectional survey date: 2020-08-25 words: 3882 flesch: 42 summary: ► High psychological distress among postgraduate trainees during COVID-19 pandemic is reported in Pakistan. Our study contributes to literature on prevalence of psychological symptoms in postgraduate trainees. keywords: acute; adequate; analysis; anxiety; bmj; care; covid-19; cross; data; depression; disorder; distress; doctors; factors; female; hcws; health; high; higher; impact; item; junior; line; literature; medical; mental; morbidity; outbreak; pakistan; pandemic; patients; postgraduate; prevalence; psychological; questionnaire; research; residents; results; review; risk; sample; score; sectional; senior; stress; studies; study; survey; symptoms; table; trainees; training; workers cache: cord-258879-dueab356.txt plain text: cord-258879-dueab356.txt item: #12 of 41 id: cord-260583-n20y2zep author: Haqqi, Aleena title: COVID‐19 and Salmonella Typhi co‐epidemics in Pakistan: A real problem date: 2020-07-15 words: 971 flesch: 63 summary: The year wise distribution of typhoid cases is shown in Figure 3 . 15 In the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are overburdened with the high influx of patients with COVID-19 in hospitals, in such situations rise in the number of typhoid cases has also been observed. keywords: cases; countries; covid-19; diagnosis; fever; health; healthcare; infected; muhammad; overburdened; pakistan; patients; province; report; sindh; symptoms; typhoid; xdr cache: cord-260583-n20y2zep.txt plain text: cord-260583-n20y2zep.txt item: #13 of 41 id: cord-265575-gcaj3p0f author: Shah, Pir Tariq title: Increasing and declining of COVID-19 cases puzzling the health experts in Pakistan date: 2020-10-17 words: 440 flesch: 51 summary: current scenario of Pakistan Is Pakistan prepared to tackle the coronavirus epidemic? Countrywide lockdown stretched till May 9 The Incubation Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application Unexplained decline in COVID-19 cases' in Pakistan puzzles health experts and policymakers. key: cord-265575-gcaj3p0f authors: Shah, Pir Tariq; Xing, Li title: Increasing and declining of COVID-19 cases puzzling the health experts in Pakistan date: 2020-10-17 journal: New Microbes New Infect DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100791 sha: doc_id: 265575 cord_uid: gcaj3p0f keywords: age; authors; cases; coronavirus; covid-19; data; health; lower; new; pakistan cache: cord-265575-gcaj3p0f.txt plain text: cord-265575-gcaj3p0f.txt item: #14 of 41 id: cord-265996-97xxpe8m author: Din, M. title: Delays in polio vaccination programs due to COVID-19 in Pakistan: a major threat to Pakistan's long war against polio virus date: 2020-10-13 words: 996 flesch: 63 summary: j.puhe.2020.09.004 sha: doc_id: 265996 cord_uid: 97xxpe8m nan Letter to the Editor Delays in polio vaccination programs due to COVID-19 in Pakistan: a major threat to Pakistan's long war against polio virus The WHO is ready to resume the vaccination plans but as Pakistan is witnessing an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, with the next few weeks crucial, the resumption of polio vaccination campaigns might be delayed. keywords: campaigns; care; cases; children; countries; covid-19; health; immunization; pakistan; polio; programs; vaccination; virus cache: cord-265996-97xxpe8m.txt plain text: cord-265996-97xxpe8m.txt item: #15 of 41 id: cord-267791-v10eh408 author: Chughtai, Abrar Ahmad title: Use of personal protective equipment to protect against respiratory infections in Pakistan: A systematic review date: 2019-02-07 words: 4247 flesch: 51 summary: We conducted a systematic review of studies on PPE use for respiratory infections in healthcare settings in Pakistan. The studies examined PPE use in hospital (n = 7), dental (n = 4) or laboratory (n = 2) settings. keywords: availability; available; clinical; compliance; control; dental; diseases; ebola; equipment; face; gloves; guidelines; h1n1; healthcare; high; hospital; infection; influenza; laboratory; lack; low; masks; measures; medical; pakistan; pandemic; patients; personal; policies; ppe; practices; procedures; protective; respiratory; reuse; review; risk; sars; search; settings; studies; study; survey; training; transmission; tuberculosis; use; virus; workers cache: cord-267791-v10eh408.txt plain text: cord-267791-v10eh408.txt item: #16 of 41 id: cord-268149-narre5e7 author: Aziz, Muhammad Abdul title: Traditional uses of medicinal plants used by Indigenous communities for veterinary practices at Bajaur Agency, Pakistan date: 2018-01-29 words: 8420 flesch: 45 summary: A case study among indigenous adolescents in Oaxaca Schooling and local environmental knowledge: do they complement or substitute each other Secular changes of indigenous knowledge of useful plants: separating age and cohort effects Modernization and medicinal plant knowledge in a Caribbean horticultural village Pharmaceutical ethnobotany in the Montseny biosphere reserve (Catalonia, Iberian Peninsula). Current study revealed that the study area has sufficient knowledge on ethnoveterinary medicinal plants. keywords: abdominal; agency; ailments; animals; antimicrobial; apiaceae; area; bajaur; care; cattle; certain; change; climate; collection; communities; community; consent; conservation; cow; cultural; current; data; daucoides; days; decoction; different; digestive; diseases; disorders; district; domestic; drugs; economic; effective; effects; efficacy; essential; ethnoveterinary; ethnoveterinary knowledge; ethnoveterinary medicinal; ethnoveterinary practices; family; farmers; fic; flora; flour; folk; food; fruit; galactagogue; gastric; glabra; healing; health; herbal; high; human; important; indigenous; infectious; knowledge; leaves; literature; livestock; local; longa; medications; medicinal; medicinal plants; medicines; milk; mixed; modern; need; new; number; oil; oils; pain; pakistan; people; plants; potential; practices; problems; production; products; region; remedies; remedy; reported; reproductive; role; rural; seeds; sheep; significant; skin; somnifera; south; species; studies; study; study area; survey; table; threats; tonic; traditional; traditional knowledge; treatment; tribal; use; uses; utilization; value; virginianum; vulgare; waziristan; world; wound cache: cord-268149-narre5e7.txt plain text: cord-268149-narre5e7.txt item: #17 of 41 id: cord-270898-7ap8lcxm author: Javed, Bilal title: Is Pakistan's Response to Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Adequate to Prevent an Outbreak? date: 2020-04-21 words: 2201 flesch: 49 summary: The geographical locations of extremely severe outbreaks in two countries that border Pakistan (China and Iran), in addition to the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic by WHO, forced Pakistan's government to take drastic, severe, and quick actions to stop the further transmission of the virus in the country (6) . A comparison of WHO's reported day-by-day data from Pakistan, the US, Italy, and Iran shows ( Figure 1B ) that Pakistan could be the next country to see an exponential rise in COVID-19 transmission and death (4). keywords: border; cases; centers; china; coronavirus; countries; country; covid-19; deaths; disease; government; health; help; hospitals; individuals; infected; iran; italy; lack; national; number; outbreak; pakistan; pandemic; patients; people; plan; protective; public; quarantine; screening; spread; supplies; transmission; virus cache: cord-270898-7ap8lcxm.txt plain text: cord-270898-7ap8lcxm.txt item: #18 of 41 id: cord-275445-d3i12m3l author: Hashmi, Madiha title: A national survey of critical care services in hospitals accredited for training in a lower-middle income country: Pakistan date: 2020-08-21 words: 3294 flesch: 44 summary: Investment in critical care training for doctors and nurses is needed. Investment in critical care training for doctors and nurses is needed. keywords: access; asia; availability; available; basic; beds; care; countries; country; critical; equipment; hospitals; icus; income; infrastructure; institutions; intensive; intensivist; investment; lower; management; medicine; middle; monitoring; national; number; nurses; pakistan; patients; population; provinces; quality; resources; services; specialist; staff; support; survey; table; training; units cache: cord-275445-d3i12m3l.txt plain text: cord-275445-d3i12m3l.txt item: #19 of 41 id: cord-275897-j9cwlzxu author: Hashmi, Ali M. title: New Horizons: COVID-19 and the Burden of Neuropsychiatric Illness in Pakistan date: 2020-05-17 words: 2527 flesch: 46 summary: This manuscript reviews the current state of knowledge about the burden of mental illness and assesses the impact of COVID-19 illness on mental health in Pakistan. We also did a literature search on the effects of COVID-19 illness on mental health and the psychosocial effects of COVID-19 and other Corona virus related illnesses such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. Data from the studies obtained was utilized to extrapolate the anticipated effects of COVID-19 illness on healthcare workers, COVID-19 patients and the general public in Pakistan. keywords: anxiety; burden; country; covid-19; data; depression; disease; disorders; education; effects; factors; general; hcws; health; healthcare; higher; illness; illnesses; impact; low; medical; mental; mortality; neuropsychiatric; outbreak; pakistan; patients; people; population; prevalence; psychological; public; resources; risk; sars; severe; significant; system; virus; workers; world cache: cord-275897-j9cwlzxu.txt plain text: cord-275897-j9cwlzxu.txt item: #20 of 41 id: cord-278145-3tfcxbfz author: Ahmed, Sibtain title: Challenges amid COVID-19 times - Review of the changing practices in a clinical chemistry laboratory from a developing country date: 2020-06-06 words: 4209 flesch: 42 summary: Like other institutes and industries in the country, clinical laboratories were succumbed to a variety of challenges. Additionally, a literature review of approaches adopted by clinical laboratories worldwide during the pandemic, revealed a report from a United States of America based cytology laboratory, which implemented likewise measures specifically pertaining to social distancing, revision of certain policies, safety measures, re-evaluation of staffing needs, online meetings and virtual academic activities [26] . keywords: accreditation; activities; appropriate; cap; care; cases; centers; challenges; chemistry; china; clinical; compliance; coronavirus; country; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; crisis; day; diagnostic; disease; distancing; essential; faculty; financial; health; home; hospital; impact; iran; karachi; laboratories; laboratory; learning; lock; major; management; measures; meetings; microsoft; new; online; organization; outbreak; pakistan; pandemic; patients; phlebotomy; plans; positive; post; provision; quality; required; review; safety; sample; section; services; situation; social; spread; staff; teaching; teams; testing; tests; times; virtual; work; world cache: cord-278145-3tfcxbfz.txt plain text: cord-278145-3tfcxbfz.txt item: #21 of 41 id: cord-279395-qfb06csa author: Khan, Samea title: Is Pakistan prepared for the COVID‐19 epidemic? A questionnaire‐based survey date: 2020-04-10 words: 1956 flesch: 51 summary: Characteristics of and public health responses to the Coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak in China Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a perspective from China A new emerging zoonotic virus of concern: the 2019 novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) The outcome of this questionnaire suggests that Pakistan faces a unique challenge related to public health, which majorly is the peo- To avert the threat of an epidemic, it is significant that public knowledge, attitude, and behavior towards COVID-19 response is prompt. keywords: awareness; care; control; coronavirus; covid-19; educational; faculty; hcws; health; individuals; infection; institutes; knowledge; nurses; origin; pakistan; pandemic; physicians; public; questionnaire; responses; staff; study; total; workers; years cache: cord-279395-qfb06csa.txt plain text: cord-279395-qfb06csa.txt item: #22 of 41 id: cord-279405-1d6gznls author: Butt, Muhammad Hammad title: Dengue Fever and COVID‐19 Co‐Infection; A Threat to Public Health for Co‐epidemic in Pakistan date: 2020-08-27 words: 1074 flesch: 47 summary: Recently, National Institute of Health (NIH) in Pakistan issued 'High Alert' for dengue viral infection (DVI) as monsoon season (July -December) is considered a vulnerable period for dengue spread [2] . Skin rash, a cardinal feature of DVI, has also been observed in COVID-19 patients [6] . keywords: article; authorities; cases; clinical; coronavirus; covid-19; dengue; diagnosis; diseases; dvi; fever; healthcare; high; infection; laboratory; measures; pakistan; pandemic; patients; spread; system; timely cache: cord-279405-1d6gznls.txt plain text: cord-279405-1d6gznls.txt item: #23 of 41 id: cord-280050-fktc778q author: Tahir, Shumaila title: Epidemiological and Clinical Features of SARS-CoV-2: A Retrospective Study from East Karachi, Pakistan date: 2020-06-17 words: 3425 flesch: 49 summary: Our study primarily highlights the scenario of COVID-19 cases in the East district of Karachi, Pakistan. Almost a quarter (23.3%) of Italy's population is over 65 years where a significantly higher number of COVID-19 cases and deaths were reported with case fatality rate (CFR) of 0.7% in 40-49 years, 27.7% in >80 years, and 96.9% deaths occurring in adults aged 60 years and greater [15] . keywords: age; analysis; april; asymptomatic; authors; cases; clinical; common; confirmed; contact; control; coronavirus; cough; country; cov-2; covid-19; data; days; deaths; disease; east; epidemiological; february; fever; health; high; history; individuals; infected; infection; isolation; karachi; majority; mild; novel; number; pakistan; participants; patients; positive; respiratory; sars; severe; social; spread; study; symptoms; table; transmission; travel; wuhan; years cache: cord-280050-fktc778q.txt plain text: cord-280050-fktc778q.txt item: #24 of 41 id: cord-285223-07o9irev author: Malik, Usman Rashid title: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Healthcare Professionals on COVID-19 and Risk Assessment to Prevent the Epidemic Spread: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study from Punjab, Pakistan date: 2020-09-02 words: 4803 flesch: 47 summary: Deaths of healthcare professionals as a result of exposure to COVID-19 patients have been reported in countries including the USA, the UK, China, and Italy The clinical symptoms most commonly observed in COVID-19 patients in a recent study were fever, cough, fatigue, or myalgia and dyspnea keywords: antibiotics; assessment; attitude; cases; china; community; coronavirus; covid-19; cross; data; disease; epidemic; food; hcps; healthcare; healthcare professionals; infection; knowledge; majority; management; new; novel; nurses; online; outbreak; pakistan; participants; patients; people; pharmacists; physicians; population; positive; practices; professionals; province; public; punjab; questionnaire; questions; response; risk; scores; section; size; spread; study; survey; table; test; whatsapp; workers; world cache: cord-285223-07o9irev.txt plain text: cord-285223-07o9irev.txt item: #25 of 41 id: cord-290952-tbsccwgx author: Ullah, Saif title: Modeling the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the dynamics of novel coronavirus with optimal control analysis with a case study date: 2020-07-03 words: 6466 flesch: 47 summary: The simulation results of without optimal control model are shown in section 5. Therefore, the largest compact invariant set in ∆ is the singleton set W 0 and using the LaSalle's invariant principle [17] , W 0 is globally asymptotically stable in ∆. The present section investigates the data fitting using model (3) to the confirmed reported COVID-19 infected cases in Pakistan. keywords: analysis; basic; burden; cases; class; contact; control; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; covid-19 cases; covid-19 infection; covid-19 model; covid-19 pandemic; dependent; disease; distancing; dynamics; effective; figure; following; global; health; hospitalization; impact; implementation; individuals; infected; infection; interventions; isolation; mathematical; mild; model; new; non; number; optimal; optimal control; order; pakistan; pandemic; parameters; people; pharmaceutical; prcc; present; quarantine; rate; reported; reproduction; results; section; self; social; strict; study; symptoms; time; tracing; transmission; world cache: cord-290952-tbsccwgx.txt plain text: cord-290952-tbsccwgx.txt item: #26 of 41 id: cord-291615-5440k4ax author: Mukhtar, Sonia title: Preparedness and proactive infection control measures of Pakistan during COVID-19 pandemic outbreak date: 2020-04-11 words: 645 flesch: 17 summary: Pakistan-specific model at national scaleup plan should incorporate testing, digital crowd-sourced contract tracing, strict quarantine of both confirmed and suspected cases, suggesting self-isolation and self-quarantine as the main alternative widespread strategy, imposed stringent lockdown measures, calculated relaxation of lockdown condition, implement distancing measures (monitor asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission in tested population) and control (effects of emerging drug treatments, fatality rate, healthcare intensive care capacity, equipment and staff, delay or prevent resurgence) the pandemic before the lockdown is lifted. This study's predictions suggests that an additional month of physical distancing measures could buy 2 additional months before such measures would have to be reinstated to prevent the resurgence of the pandemic COVID-19 towards healthcare system. keywords: control; covid-19; distancing; health; healthcare; infection; lockdown; measures; months; outbreak; pakistan; pandemic; physical; preparedness; public; quarantine; social; study; system cache: cord-291615-5440k4ax.txt plain text: cord-291615-5440k4ax.txt item: #27 of 41 id: cord-292293-tko186lh author: Javed, W. title: Sero-prevalence findings from metropoles in Pakistan: implications for assessing COVID-19 prevalence and case-fatality within a dense, urban working population date: 2020-08-14 words: 1546 flesch: 42 summary: The sample size included an adult, working population aged 18-65 years, recruited from dense, urban workplaces including factories, corporates, restaurants, media houses, schools, banks, healthcare providers in hospitals, and families of positive cases in various metropoles of Pakistan (Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar and Quetta). 6,7 The study results revealed a total of 17.5% COVID-19 positive cases from a sample size of 24,210 individuals. keywords: cases; covid-19; igg; igm; individuals; infection; media; pakistan; pcr; population; positive; prevalence; sample; sero; serologic; study; testing; tests; total; urban cache: cord-292293-tko186lh.txt plain text: cord-292293-tko186lh.txt item: #28 of 41 id: cord-296363-qgoxlqoq author: Khan, Yusra Habib title: Threat of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Pakistan: The Need for Measures to Neutralize Misleading Narratives date: 2020-06-22 words: 1534 flesch: 41 summary: Recently, two well-known political figures raised conspiracy theories against COVID-19 vaccines in Pakistan, stating that COVID-19 is a grand illusion and a conspiracy against Muslim countries. Unfortunately, a conspiracy theory against COVID-19 vaccine is currently being spread in Pakistan. keywords: authorities; authority; claims; community; conspiracy; country; covid-19; electronic; health; healthcare; hesitancy; importance; information; measures; media; misleading; narratives; pakistan; pandemic; polio; public; regulatory; religious; spread; theories; theory; vaccination; vaccine cache: cord-296363-qgoxlqoq.txt plain text: cord-296363-qgoxlqoq.txt item: #29 of 41 id: cord-302497-5tydrrz1 author: Bukhari, Nadia title: Pharmacists at the frontline beating the COVID-19 pandemic date: 2020-04-20 words: 1993 flesch: 46 summary: Likewise, by contributing in the prevention, preparedness and response to COVID-19 pandemic community pharmacists are delivering their role towards public health in dealing with this crisis [9] . [1] . Community pharmacists and their teams are a vital healthcare provider during the outbreak; they remain on the frontline of public health by serving as direct points of access for their patients. keywords: authors; care; community; countries; country; covid-19; crisis; editorial; emergency; frontline; global; government; guidance; guidelines; health; healthcare; home; hospitals; international; lockdown; pakistan; pandemic; patients; pharmaceutical; pharmacists; pharmacy; protection; public; response; role; services; social; support; teams; time; use; working cache: cord-302497-5tydrrz1.txt plain text: cord-302497-5tydrrz1.txt item: #30 of 41 id: cord-302842-idbmh1uo author: Raza, Ali title: Association between meteorological indicators and COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan date: 2020-10-14 words: 5069 flesch: 46 summary: The contribution of this study is (a) it first time examined the relationship between meteorological indicators and COVID-19 in Pakistan, (b) it first time examined the relationship between meteorological indicators and COVID-19 in four provinces and three administrative units in Pakistan, and (c) it used the generalized models to investigate the impact of average temperature, rainfall, and humidity on COVID-19 cases. Contrarily, Şahin (2020) reported an increase in COVID-19 cases due to a reduction in average temperature in Turkey. keywords: administrative; analysis; association; average; azad; baltistan; capital; cases; correlation; count; covid-19; covid-19 cases; curve; day; dose; et al; figure; generalized; gilgit; humidity; increase; indicators; infection; islamabad; jammu; kashmir; meteorological; model; pakhtunkhwa; pakistan; poisson; provinces; punjab; rainfall; rate; reduction; regression; response; shows; sindh; study; temperature; times; total; transmission; trend; units; variables cache: cord-302842-idbmh1uo.txt plain text: cord-302842-idbmh1uo.txt item: #31 of 41 id: cord-303102-ap1dzbp9 author: Iqbal, Sajid title: It is time to control the worst: testing COVID-19 outbreak, energy consumption and CO(2) emission date: 2020-11-12 words: 7948 flesch: 41 summary: The estimate of energy consumption is further classified into different proxies, such as energy consumptions (EC) are substituted with electricity consumptions (EC1) and fossil energy consumptions (EC2). It is time to control the worst: testing COVID-19 outbreak, energy consumption and CO(2) emission date: 2020-11-12 journal: keywords: affected; analysis; approach; ardl; authorities; big; carbon; carbon emission; china; context; countries; covid-19; covid-19 lockdown; covid-19 outbreak; covid-19 pandemic; data; decline; demand; different; economic; economy; effect; efficiency; electricity; emission; empirical; energy consumption; energy efficiency; energy market; energy sector; energy sustainability; environmental; et al; financial; findings; frameworks; future; gas; gdp; government; green; health; impact; important; iqbal; large; level; literature; local; lockdown; long; management; market; method; model; national; novel; oil; opportunity; pakistan; pandemic; panel; patterns; period; plan; policy; prices; production; public; recent; regression; regulatory; renewable; research; results; robustness; root; sector; short; significant; social; sources; statistics; structural; studies; study; sustainability; sustainable; system; table; technique; term; test; time; total; transport; uncertainty; unit; way; world cache: cord-303102-ap1dzbp9.txt plain text: cord-303102-ap1dzbp9.txt item: #32 of 41 id: cord-305146-iprzeigk author: Chughtai, Abrar Ahmad title: Use of personal protective equipment to protect against respiratory infections in Pakistan: A systematic review date: 2020-03-04 words: 4247 flesch: 51 summary: We conducted a systematic review of studies on PPE use for respiratory infections in healthcare settings in Pakistan. The studies examined PPE use in hospital (n = 7), dental (n = 4) or laboratory (n = 2) settings. keywords: availability; available; clinical; compliance; control; dental; diseases; ebola; equipment; face; gloves; guidelines; h1n1; healthcare; high; hospital; infection; influenza; laboratory; lack; low; masks; measures; medical; pakistan; pandemic; patients; personal; policies; ppe; practices; procedures; protective; respiratory; reuse; review; risk; sars; search; settings; studies; study; survey; transmission; tuberculosis; use; virus; workers cache: cord-305146-iprzeigk.txt plain text: cord-305146-iprzeigk.txt item: #33 of 41 id: cord-307697-ds4uw7y1 author: Ahmed, Jawad title: Availability of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Among US and Pakistani Doctors in COVID-19 Pandemic date: 2020-06-10 words: 4563 flesch: 54 summary: We investigated the availability of PPE among doctors in the United States (US) and Pakistan. Methods A cross-sectional study, including doctors from the US and Pakistan, was carried out from April 8 to May 5, 2020. keywords: access; analysis; authors; availability; china; contact; coronavirus; countries; country; covid-19; data; demand; discrimination; distribution; doctors; equipment; face; gloves; goggles; gowns; hcws; healthcare; hospitals; lack; masks; n =; n95; pakistan; pandemic; participants; patients; personal; ppe; ppes; protective; questionnaire; reports; respirator; reuse; shields; shortage; situation; study; suit; supply; system; table; work; workers; working cache: cord-307697-ds4uw7y1.txt plain text: cord-307697-ds4uw7y1.txt item: #34 of 41 id: cord-308556-xi2un0kc author: Saadat, S. title: Covid-19 SEIDRD Modelling for Pakistan with implementation of seasonality, healthcare capacity and behavioral risk reduction date: 2020-09-02 words: 4730 flesch: 53 summary: Shows the experiment 2 curve for total symptomatic cases against the simulation time period. Shows the experiment 4 curve for Total symptomatic cases against the simulation time period. keywords: active; author; capacity; cases; copyright; covid-19; curve; day; days; disease; experiment; funder; holder; license; lockdown; measures; medrxiv; model; mortality; number; pakistan; peer; period; permission; perpetuity; population; preprint; probability; rate; reduction; reuse; review; rights; risk; second; september; severe; simulation; smart; symptomatic; table; time; total; version cache: cord-308556-xi2un0kc.txt plain text: cord-308556-xi2un0kc.txt item: #35 of 41 id: cord-310293-0s7l0l4k author: Salman, Saima title: Inter-hospital communication and transfer practices during COVID-19 Pandemic in Karachi, Pakistan. A brief overview date: 2020-05-17 words: 1482 flesch: 45 summary: In addition to the extensive planning required to cater to patients with COVID 19 in hospitals as well as instructions for home quarantine in stable patients, the undertaking also involves establishment of state run quarantine facilities, establishment of protocols for surge capacity and liaison between healthcare facilities and government for proper patient management. The need for expeditious transfer of patients among various hospitals has always been voiced at various forums but no measures have been taken so far in the form of well-defined pathways and SOPs, neither between hospitals nor at the level of policy makers. keywords: ambulance; burden; cases; communication; covid; covid-19; disease; establishment; facilities; government; groups; healthcare; holders; hospital; indus; karachi; need; number; pakistan; pandemic; patients; phone; proper; referral; services; stake; tih; transfer; units cache: cord-310293-0s7l0l4k.txt plain text: cord-310293-0s7l0l4k.txt item: #36 of 41 id: cord-311085-jmuyi53x author: Saqlain, Muhammad title: Is Pakistan prepared to tackle the coronavirus epidemic? date: 2020-03-20 words: 1215 flesch: 56 summary: Pakistan borders countries infected with COVID-19, including China, an epicenter of the disease that currently has the highest number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 (n = 3162), to the north, and Iran, a country with the third highest number of COVID-19-associated mortalities (n = 291), to the west; Italy has the second highest number of deaths [3] . After declaration of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Pakistan government took several measures to cope with this zoonotic illness. keywords: actions; cases; centers; china; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; epidemic; facemasks; facilities; february; government; health; hospitals; iran; new; number; outbreak; pakistan; quarantine; situation; system; test cache: cord-311085-jmuyi53x.txt plain text: cord-311085-jmuyi53x.txt item: #37 of 41 id: cord-315059-l6guql8q author: Mubarak, Naeem title: Corona and Clergy: The missing link for an effective social distancing in Pakistan. Time for some unpopular decisions date: 2020-04-30 words: 477 flesch: 61 summary: [of] us, coming days would be more challenging 45 for Pakistan to implement social distancing in the holy month of Ramadan (26 th April) when 46 influx in mosques increases many-fold for daily prayers and Tarawih (an additional prayer in 47 Author has no conflict of interest and source of funding to disclose for this manuscript. In Pakistan, the practice of social distancing 24 An evaluation version of novaPDF was used to create this PDF file. keywords: cases; clergy; congregation; countries; covid-19; distancing; iran; pakistan; social; virus cache: cord-315059-l6guql8q.txt plain text: cord-315059-l6guql8q.txt item: #38 of 41 id: cord-318240-wxtktbfa author: Salman, Muhammad title: How Prepared Was Pakistan for the COVID-19 Outbreak? date: 2020-07-14 words: 578 flesch: 56 summary: Pakistan coronavirus camp: no facilities, no humanity doctors on hunger strike over lack of PPE. key: cord-318240-wxtktbfa authors: Salman, Muhammad; Mustafa, Zia Ul; Khan, Tahir Mehmood; Shehzadi, Naureen; Hussain, Khalid title: How Prepared Was Pakistan for the COVID-19 Outbreak? date: 2020-07-14 journal: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.247 sha: doc_id: keywords: border; cases; china; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; disease; health; lack; pakistan; preparedness; regulators cache: cord-318240-wxtktbfa.txt plain text: cord-318240-wxtktbfa.txt item: #39 of 41 id: cord-318390-uuz37610 author: Saleem, Tayyaba title: COVID-19 containment and its unrestrained impact on epilepsy management in resource-limited areas of Pakistan date: 2020-09-25 words: 2928 flesch: 39 summary: Importantly, epilepsy cases are not uniformly distributed; instead, a large number of patients belong to resource-poor regions [5, 6] , places that are more at risk of epidemic outbreaks, thus making epilepsy management more difficult during an epidemic. key: cord-318390-uuz37610 authors: Saleem, Tayyaba; Sheikh, Nadeem; Abbasi, Muddasir Hassan; Javed, Iram; khawar, Muhammad Babar title: COVID-19 containment and its unrestrained impact on epilepsy management in resource-limited areas of Pakistan date: 2020-09-25 journal: Epilepsy Behav DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107476 sha: doc_id: 318390 cord_uid: uuz37610 The current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that led to an unprecedented crisis with significant health, social, and economic repercussions presented more serious concerns for those living with some chronic conditions such as epilepsy. keywords: aeds; areas; authors; awareness; caregivers; challenges; chronic; conditions; control; countries; covid-19; current; data; different; disease; drugs; economic; education; epilepsy; fig; health; healthcare; lockdown; majority; management; measures; medical; pakistan; pandemic; patients; people; poor; population; present; punjab; questionnaire; resource; respondents; responses; rural; seizures; social; study; telehealth; telemedicine; treatment; visits; world cache: cord-318390-uuz37610.txt plain text: cord-318390-uuz37610.txt item: #40 of 41 id: cord-337155-e4gn4fo1 author: Ullah, Atta title: The nexus between capital structure, firm-specific factors, macroeconomic factors and financial performance in the textile sector of Pakistan date: 2020-08-31 words: 7633 flesch: 44 summary: R. Estate Econ Board size, CEO duality, and the value of Canadian manufacturing firms The interrelationship between Culture, capital structure, and performance: evidence from European retailers Impact of capital structure on performance of listed public sector banks in India Do banks provide financial stack? Influence of capital structure on firm performance: evidence from Bangladesh Determinants of capital structure: a case for the Pakistani Cement industry Agency theory, capital structure, and firm performance: some Indian evidence The relationship of capital structure decisions with firm performance: a study of the engineering sector of Pakistan Who benefits from the export tax rebate policy? The relationship between capital structure decisions with firm performance: comparison between big and small industries in firms listed at Tehran stock exchange The determinants of capital structure choice Impact of capital structure on financial performance of textile sector in Pakistan Capital structure decisions and corporate performance: evidence from Chinese listed industrial firms keywords: analysis; assets; association; capital structure; choice; companies; corporate; countries; data; debt; dependent; determinants; economic; effect; equity; equity ratio; et al; evidence; exchange; export; export growth; export performance; factors; financial performance; financing; findings; firm; firm financial; firm performance; firm size; growth; hypothesis; impact; incentives; industry; level; leverage; market; model; negative; pakistan; panel; performance; positive; positive relationship; profitability; proxy; random; ratio; regression; relationship; results; return; roe; role; sales; sample; sector; significant; size; stock; study; table; tax; taxation; test; textile; textile sector; theory; total; total assets; total debt; turnover; value; variables cache: cord-337155-e4gn4fo1.txt plain text: cord-337155-e4gn4fo1.txt item: #41 of 41 id: cord-348521-ai7d634u author: Atif, Muhammad title: COVID-19 and community pharmacy services in Pakistan: challenges, barriers and solution for progress date: 2020-06-15 words: 2338 flesch: 38 summary: The importance of community pharmacy services during COVID-19 havoc could be gauged by the fact that many developed nations have amended pharmaceutical policies, introduced reimbursement schemes and released new instructions for community pharmacies to expand pharmacy services key: cord-348521-ai7d634u authors: Atif, Muhammad; Malik, Iram title: COVID-19 and community pharmacy services in Pakistan: challenges, barriers and solution for progress date: 2020-06-15 journal: J Pharm Policy Pract DOI: 10.1186/s40545-020-00240-4 sha: doc_id: 348521 cord_uid: ai7d634u In the wake of atrocious rise in COVID-19 cases, developed countries are leveraging a range of community pharmacy services with the goal of improving access to essential medication and healthcare services. keywords: advanced; community; country; covid-19; crisis; demand; drug; essential; factors; government; healthcare; key; lack; low; medication; medicines; nations; need; number; pakistan; pandemic; patients; pharmaceutical; pharmacists; pharmacy; prescription; presence; proprietors; public; qualitative; range; regulatory; related; result; services; settings; study; system cache: cord-348521-ai7d634u.txt plain text: cord-348521-ai7d634u.txt