Andalusian School of Public Health

In certain hospital interventions that replace medical doctors with nurses, there is little or no difference in patient mortality and quality of life, according to research that brings together the results of 82 previous studies, and includes data from healthcare personnel from different specialities. "While our findings suggest there is merit in pursuing [nurse-physician substitution] as a solution to shortages and maldistribution of doctors, it is also important to consider the implications of [nurse-physician substitution] on the availability of nurses and future developments in the scope of nursing practice," the authors write in the study, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

A panel of 386 academics, led by ISGlobal (Barcelona), has established a series of recommendations to end the threat of covid-19 following the Delphi method, a prospective technique based on the search for consensus among a group of experts. The results are published in the journal Nature.

The European Medicines Agency issued its recommendations yesterday afternoon regarding the administration of a third dose of the Comirnaty (Pfizer/BioNTech) and Spikevax (Moderna) vaccines. These are the reactions of several experts on the matter.