ClinMeditorial March 2021

26/03/2021 10 min
ClinMeditorial March 2021

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The ClinMeditorial features the ClinMeditations of our editor, Professor Anton Emmanuel, on the latest issue of Clinical Medicine, the journal of the Royal College of Physicians.  Links to specific articles he discusses are below, or read the whole issue here. All the COVID-related articles published in the last year in Clinical Medicine and our sister title, Future Healthcare Journal The ethics and politics of addressing health inequalities National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) to identify inpatient COVID-19 deterioration: a retrospective analysis Contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2: what can be learned from other conditions? The safety of anaesthetists and intensivists during the first COVID-19 surge supports extension of use of airborne protection PPE to ward staff Perspective: Vitamin D supplementation prevents rickets and acute respiratory infections when given as daily maintenance but not as intermittent bolus: implications for COVID-19 The effects of COVID-19 on sickness of medical staff across departments: A single centre experience Assessment and management of dysphagia and achalasia  A practical approach to the patient with chronic diarrhoea An update on coeliac disease from the NHS England National Centre for Refractory Coeliac Disease Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the gastrointestinal tract Ulcerative colitis: an update Iron deficiency without anaemia: a diagnosis that matters Pre-stroke disability and stroke severity as predictors of discharge destination from an acute stroke ward Support the show