COVID-19 strategy in organizing and planning orthopedic surgery in a major orthopedic referral center in an area of Italy severely affected by the pandemic: experience of the Department of Orthopedics, University of Padova

Abstract Background According to the required reorganization of all hospital activities, the recent COVID-19 pandemic had dramatic consequences on the orthopedic world.We think that informing the orthopedic community about the strategy that we adopted both in our hospital and in our Department of Orthopedics could be useful, particularly for those

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Development and Validation of the Outcome Expectancy Scale for COVID-19 Vaccination in the Adult General Population

Promotion of COVID-19 vaccination requires understanding its determinants, an important one of which is outcome expectancy.However, reliable and valid measurement tools are absent.This study thus developed and validated an Outcome Expectancy Scale for COVID-19 Vaccination (OES-COVID-19).An inductive approach was used for scale development; content

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