Specialist Information on the Coronavirus
Collection of freely available scientific information on the novel coronavirus
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Evidence-based resources, guidelines and recommendations
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine University Oxford (CEBM)
Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service - Cochrane Library
- Cochrane Library
- COVID-19 Study Register
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures
- Neuer Cochrane Review zu klinischen Zeichen und Symptomen zur Erkennung von COVID-19
- Aktualisierter Cochrane Living Review zur Nutzung von Rekonvaleszenten-Plasma zur Behandlung von COVID-19
- Neuer Cochrane Review: Psychologische Interventionen zur Förderung der Resilienz von Fachkräften im Gesundheitswesen
- Cochrane veröffentlicht drei Rapid Reviews zu verschiedenen Public-Health-Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung von COVID-19
- Deutsche Interdisziplinäre Vereinigung für Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin (DIVI)
Covid-19 recommendations (ethical, organisational and therapeutic) - Ethische Empfehlungen zur Triage von COVID-19-Erkrankten
Wirth, Mathias, Rauschenbach, Laurèl, Hurwitz, Brian, Schmiedebach, Heinz-Peter, & Herdt, Jennifer. (2020). “The Meaning of Care and Ethics to Mitigate the Harshness of Triage in Second-Wave Scenario Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. The American Journal of Bioethics. Published online: 01 Jul 2020 - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Rapid guidelines and evidence reviews - UpToDate
- National and international guidelines and recommendations (WHO, CDC, ECDC-EU, PHE, JAID, etc.)
- Evidence on coronavirus
Databases
- EPPI-Centres in England
Living systematic map of the Covid-19 evidence - Charité Research Database
Database with Charité research projects and publications on COVID-19 - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network (GIDEON)
Ovid database on global infectious diseases with special information on the novel coronavirus - LitCovid
A service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with current scientific information about the novel coronavirus - Livivo ZB Med Search Portal for Life Sciences
Search string to search for articles about the novel coronavirus in Livivo:
"COVID-19" OR "SARS-COV-2" - Ovid MEDLINE All
Ovid and MEDLINE recommend this search. The search is optimized to achieve greater balance of sensitivity and specificity.
Publication of further expert searches in Ovid MEDLINE - Preprints
medRxiv Health Sciences and bioRxiv Biology offer free access to preprints that have not (yet) been reviewed in a peer review process. - PubMed
We recommend the following sensitive search string to search for articles about the novel coronavirus in PubMed:
("Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2"[Supplementary Concept] OR "COVID-19" [Supplementary Concept] OR "Betacoronavirus"[Mesh] OR "coronavirus*"[tiab] OR "corona virus*"[tiab] OR ncov[tiab] OR covid*[tiab] OR sarscov*[tiab] OR "sars cov*"[tiab]) AND ("2019/12/01"[PDAT] : "2099/12/31"[PDAT]) - World Health Organisation (WHO) Global research on the novel coronavirus
WHO collects the global scientific findings on the novel coronavirus in a database.
Publishers
Many publishers have joined the Wellcome Statement Sharing research data and findings relevant to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and make coronavirus content freely available on their platforms.
- BioOne
- Cambridge University Press
- DUKE University Press
- Elsevier Novel Coronavirus Information Center
Electronic textbooks were made freely available by Elsevier.
Elsevier COVID-19 Clinical Tool Kit - Emerald Publishing
- Frontiers
- Karger Publishers
- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
- Oxford University Press
- Springer
- Taylor & Francis
- Thieme
- Wiley
Scientific institutions and international organisations
- Center for Disease Control
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
- International Association of National Public Health Institutes
- Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering
- NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Robert Koch Institute
Information, case numbers and recommendations from the Robert Koch Institute
The COVID-19-Dashboard provides a detailed presentation of the transmitted COVID-19-cases in Germany by county and state. - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO information on coronavirus
Current case numbers worldwide are available on the World Health Organization website..