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The case illuminates the success story of the UAE's Federal Government, Ministry of Health and Prevention, and Dubai Health Authority in handling COVID-19, which launched a comprehensive approach to assess business readiness across all critical functions and country locations through the lens of a global pandemic. The strategy reviews several areas: operational readiness, medical staff mobility, infrastructure resiliency, and information security. The case is a descriptive or observational study describing the series of occurrences concerning health disorders and aftermath activities in March and April of 2020. The author noticed the happenings in his fortnight quarantine stay and witnessed how efficiently, with significant efficacy, the entire medical and admin activities are planned and delivered to provide accurate and dedicated services to all COVID-19 patients. These activities mostly relate to leadership, crisis management, strategic initiatives, human resources, team building, customer experience, and positive psychology. © 2023, IGI Global.
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The core objective of this chapter is to explore the risks associated with organizational factors influencing the professional growth of women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the pandemic. The collected data were summarized and coded using software R Studio, and the variables were encoded and reduced using the one-hot encoding method and principal component analysis (PCA). The researchers identified that organizational and situational factors have a high degree of impact on women's professional development, which creates a significant effect of discontent over the mindset of women employees even in uncertain conditions. The study covers women employees working only in two emirates, Dubai and Sharjah. It includes telecom, banking, education, and other governmental and non-governmental organizations. This chapter is valuable to all the policymakers of the entire corporate sector and government authorities to set the right things by observing diverse organizational factors that influence women employees. © 2022 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.
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Background: As a massively polarizing practice, concealing or face covering has emerged in the midst of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Given the increasing speculation regarding therapeutic control measures, nonpharmacological approaches offer promising successful mitigation in the battle against severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) COVID-19. The evaluation of public capacity, prospects, and actions offers recommendations for public oversight of the implementation of prevention activities. Hence, this investigation was aimed to explore the discernment in practicing nonpharmacological modes of intervention in combating SARS COVID-19 among a group of people, dental patients. Materials and Methods: A pictorial questionnaire survey was done using convenience sampling, aimed at participants visiting the triage facility of the institution to capture their discernment in practicing nonpharmacological modes of intervention for 3 months. Results: A total of 6015 individuals with a mean age of 35.44 & PLUSMN;14.20 years participated in the study. The majority of the participants were in the age group of 18-30 years (n = 2340, 38.9%) with female (n = 3105, 51.6%) and urban (n = 3745, 62.3%) predominance. Most of the study participants had purchased cloth masks (n = 2980, 49.5%) and had spent about 10-50 INR per mask (n = 4050, 80.6%). Patients have reported that the usage of a mask (n = 1330, 22.1%) was the most difficult measure to follow and also stated that sanitizing hands (n = 2505, 41.6%) was the easiest measure to follow during this pandemic. Crowding in the market (n = 2255, 37.5%) and placing masks around the neck (n = 735, 12.2%) were infringements served in their surroundings. Irrespective of educational qualification touching the outer area of the mask was the most common noncompliance reported by the participants which were statistically significant (P = 0.0001). Conclusion: The study participants have divulged that usage of masks and following social distance in public transport were the most difficult preventive measures of SARS COVID-19 to follow. Evaluating the attitudes of public in preventive procedures for COVID-19 can pave the way to make comprehensive guidelines.
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INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 has disrupted healthcare access for patients (pts) with cancer, which may pose an especially high risk for pts with hematologic malignancies (NCI, 2021). The standard of care for newly diagnosed (ND) AML is induction with intensive chemotherapy (IC;“7+3”) ± consolidation for eligible pts;while during the COVID era, lower-intensity regimens, such as a hypomethylating agent (HMA) plus venetoclax (VEN), may be recommended over 7+3 to eligible pts to minimize transfusions and inpatient hospitalizations. For pts who achieved remission from induction, COVID-19 may have led some practitioners to reduce the number of consolidation cycles and/or lower the cytarabine dose used for consolidation. Transplantation, including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), has been severely impacted (even halted in some areas) during COVID-19 (NasrAllah, 2021). The influence of COVID-19 on AML treatment (Tx) and outcomes has yet to be adequately studied. OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of COVID-19 on AML Tx patterns and survival in the real-world practice setting. METHODS: The Flatiron™ EMR database was used in this retrospective analysis of US pts aged ≥ 18 years with an AML diagnosis between 1 Jan 2018 and 31 Jan 2021 and who had ≥ 2 months of follow-up. Tx patterns and survival outcomes were compared between a Pre-COVID cohort, defined as pts diagnosed with AML between 1 Jan 2018 and 31 Dec 2019, and a Post-COVID cohort of pts diagnosed between 1 Mar 2020 and 31 Jan 2021. Pt characteristics and Tx patterns were assessed for all pts and in the Pre- and Post-COVID cohorts using summary statistics. Time to event analyses used Kaplan-Meier methods for survival curves and were compared by log-rank tests. RESULTS: In all, 2,133 pts met the selection criteria (mean age was 66.0 years, 57.5% were male, and 75.7% were treated in community practices);1,582 (74.2%) pts were in the Pre-COVID cohort and 551 (25.8%) were in the Post-COVID cohort. Pt characteristics were generally similar between cohorts. In the Post-COVID cohort, use of IC and HMA-only induction decreased significantly, while induction with VEN + an HMA increased (Fig. A): 29.4% of pts (n=132) in the Post-COVID cohort received VEN + azacitidine and 19.8% (n=89) received VEN + decitabine, compared with 16.0% (n=190) and 9.0% (n=107), respectively, in the Pre-Covid cohort (P < 0.001, both comparisons). Time to induction was shorter in the Post-COVID cohort vs the Pre-COVID cohort (median 14 vs 18 days;P < 0.001). In all, 1,056 pts attained remission within 180 days of induction, including 774 Pre-COVID and 282 Post-COVID pts. Among them, 621 pts had a follow-up period of ≥ 180 days (394 pts Pre-COVID, 227 pts Post-COVID) and 41.1% (n=162) vs. 14.1% (n=32) of pts in the Pre- and Post-COVID cohorts, respectively, received consolidation (P < 0.001). Proportions of pts receiving maintenance therapy (MT) were 23.9% (n=94) and 17.6% (n=40) in the Pre- and Post-COVID cohorts, respectively (P = 0.069). Time to HSCT was significantly increased for pts in the Post-COVID cohort (P = 0.035;Fig. B), and rate of HSCT was reduced for Post-COVID pts vs Pre-COVID pts (19.0% vs 13.3%, respectively, at 180 days, and 31.3% vs 22.7% at 360 days). Estimated overall survival (OS) was significantly longer in the Pre-COVID cohort (P = 0.006 vs. Post-COVID);at 360 days of follow-up, estimated survival rates in the Pre- and Post-COVID cohorts were 68.3% vs. 51.3%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Induction with IC and HMAs was less frequent for pts diagnosed with AML during COVID-19, while induction with VEN + an HMA increased in these pts. Use of consolidation significantly decreased during COVID-19, and use of MT also decreased. These changes may have been influenced by inpatient resource constraints. Compared with the Pre-COVID cohort, Post-COVID pts were significantly less likely to receive HSCT, and longer HSCT waiting times suggest the pandemic affected access to timely transplantation, potentially due to hospital policies limiting surgeries, lack of available inpatient beds, or donor reluctance to visit a hospital during the pandemic. OS and 1-year survival were compromised in the Post-COVID cohort vs Pre-COVID pts, likely due to COVID-19 infection, but perhaps in part due to constraints on access to healthcare resources. These data suggest a need for oral Tx that can prolong remission while reducing clinic and inpatient visits, and that can bridge the gap until HSCT. [Formula presented] Disclosures: Chen: Bristol Myers Squibb: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Rotter: SmartAnalyst Inc.: Current Employment. Potluri: Bristol Myers Squibb: Consultancy.
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Purpose – The purpose of the research is to explore library patrons' and leaders' perspectives regarding the key challenges facing during COVID-19 and issues to be addressed in managing libraries in the UAE. Design/methodology/approach– The researchers collected 300 patrons' and 50 library leaders' opinions by administering two types of questionnaires that tested its reliability and validity by implementing Cronbach Alpha and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) tests. The collected data were analyzed using the R language in R Studio Software. The selected hypotheses were tested by employing the Kruskal-Wallis (K-W) hypotheses technique. Findings – The researchers identified innumerable challenges the library leaders face during pandemic and stress in managing issues to be addressed because of the decreasing patrons' trend, which led to reduced budgets from higher educational institutions. Research limitations/implications – The study is limited to collect the opinions of only higher educational institution respondents who are randomly selected from only two emirates Dubai and Sharjah. The study also collected a limited number of respondents with just three hundred library users and fifty library admin staff. Practical implications – The study is beneficial to all the types of libraries, its managers, the managerial cadre of higher educational institutions, and partially useful to all types of book publishers. Originality/value – The present research paper is original and provides empirical evidence about the UAE library leadership staff and patrons. © 2021, Library Philosophy and Practice. All rights reserved.
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Purpose - This study aims to explore various methods of knowledge Transfer (KT) in the UAE Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) (both pre and post COVD-19 pandemic) and to measure the satisfaction level of instructors and students towards these methods. This study also aims to identify the type of learning most and least supported by online KT process and to identify the challenges faced by instructors and students while using the online KT process during COVID-19 pandemic. The study revealed that more than 92 percent of both students and instructors expressed their satisfaction with the knowledge transfer methods introduced by higher education institutions in the UAE. The outcome of the research is worthwhile for both Emirati and foreign higher education institutions, which are operating in the UAE and even in the middle east, to promote their academic programs in their respective markets during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper provides a through insight for the policy makers at higher institutions in UAE for considering online mode as a substitute/simultaneous approach for knowledge transfer. © 2021 IEEE.