Setting Up a Transfusion Laboratory for Covid-19 Samples: An Experience from a New Teaching Hospital

University Putra Malaysia (UPM) Teaching Hospital or Hospital Pengajar UPM (HPUPM) is a new 400-bed teaching hospital that started operations in 2019 and initially did not manage COVID-19 patients. However, due to a surge of COVID-19 patients in Malaysia in 2021, HPUPM needs to manage COVID-19 patients in various categories, including those needing intensive care. This paper explored the experience of setting up the transfusion laboratory for COVID-19 samples within a short notice, including the development of the protocol, challenges, and lessons learnt during the whole process. © 2022 UPM Press. All rights reserved.

Employee retention by career development, engagement and work life balance during the Covid-19 crisis

The objective of this particular research has been to look at the particular determinants associated with employees' preservation within the monetary field within Kuala Lumpur. This particular informative research used the deductive strategy plus speculation were created to check typically the impact associated with worker wedding, work-life stability, in addition to profession advancement upon preservation regarding workers. It was a new mix sectional study and even main information has been gathered by utilizing self-administered forms. Information has been gathered through ninety two participants together with several regression evaluation has been utilized to check the particular ideas. The particular results demonstrated that will staff wedding was typically the most powerful predictor involving worker preservation accompanied by function existence equilibrium. Nevertheless , profession development demonstrated a good minor partnership along with staff preservation. This particular research has been restricted to the particular economic industry plus long term research may reproduce this consist of industries and various nations. With regard to useful ramifications, this particular examine offered a much better knowing in order to human being source supervisors plus frontrunners inside businesses around the guidelines plus applications to keep workers. To enhance employee's preservation, assistance plans should concentrate on worker wedding in addition to work-life stability. This specific analyze furthermore plays a role in the present entire body expertise. This kind of research was the very first to look at typically the mixed effect profession growth, function existence harmony plus staff proposal upon maintenance associated with workers inside the economical field.

Analysis of false negative results in throat swab nucleic acid test of severe acute resporatory syndrome coronavirus 2

Objective To investigate the false negative rate of throat swab nucleic acid test of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and to analyze the causes, so as to provide references for the prevention and control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China. Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on the throat swab nucleic acid test results of 1 452 COVID-19 patients admitted to Guanggu Branch of Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital of Hubei Province from Feb. 19 to Mar. 20, 2020. The negative results before positive results at discharge were judged as false negative results, and the false negative rate was calculated. The discharged patients were followed up to screen for the patients who were positive for nucleic acid test again, and the relationship between the times of consecutive negative nucleic acid tests before discharge and the positive again results was analyzed. Results Among the 1 452 COVID-19 patients, 592 (40.77%) were males and 860 (59.23%) were females. A total of 212 cases (14.60%) had false negative results. Twenty-eight cases (1.93%) were discovered nucleic acid positive again after discharge. Among the 918 patients whose nucleic acid tests were negative for two consecutive times, 24 (2.61%) were positive again, which was significantly higher than that of the patients whose nucleic acid tests were negative for three consecutive times (0.75%, 4/534;χ2=6.21, P=0.012 7). Conclusion The throat swab nucleic acid test of SARS-CoV-2 has a certain proportion of false negative results, which is one of the reasons for COVID-19 patients are found nucleic acid positive again after discharge. Multiple and continuous tests by different testers are recommended before discharge, and negative nucleic acid test for three or more consecutive times can reduce the incidence of nucleic acid positive results again after discharge.