Papers by Marie Annick Le Pogam
International Journal of Public Health
Objectives: The clinical and social burden of the COVID-19 pandemic were high among asylum seeker... more Objectives: The clinical and social burden of the COVID-19 pandemic were high among asylum seekers (ASs). We aimed to understand better ASs’ experiences of the pandemic and their sources of worries.Methods: Participants (n = 203) completed a survey about their worries, sleep disorders, and fear of dying. We also conducted semi-structured interviews with ASs living in a community center (n = 15), focusing on how social and living conditions affected their experiences and worries.Results: ASs in community centers experienced more sleep disorders related to the COVID-19 pandemic than those living in private apartments (aOR 2.01, p = 0.045). Similarly, those with lower education had greater fear for their life due to the COVID-19 pandemic (aOR 2.31, p = 0.015). Qualitative findings showed that sharing living spaces was an important source of worries for ASs and that protective measures were perceived to increase social isolation.Conclusion: Our study highlighted the impact of the COVID-...
PLOS ONE
Background Sepsis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Prompt recognition and managemen... more Background Sepsis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Prompt recognition and management are critical to improve outcomes. Methods We conducted a survey among nurses and physicians of all adult departments of the Lausanne University Hospital (LUH) and paramedics transporting patients to our hospital. Measured outcomes included professionals’ demographics (age, profession, seniority, unit of activity), quantification of prior sepsis education, self-evaluation, and knowledge of sepsis epidemiology, definition, recognition, and management. Correlation between surveyed personnel and sepsis perceptions and knowledge were assessed with univariable and multivariable logistic regression models. Results Between January and October 2020, we contacted 1’216 of the 4’417 professionals (27.5%) of the LUH, of whom 1’116 (91.8%) completed the survey, including 619 of 2’463 (25.1%) nurses, 348 of 1’664 (20.9%) physicians and 149 of 290 (51.4%) paramedics. While 98.5% of the participants w...
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Asylum seekers face multiple language, cultural and administrative barriers that could result in ... more Asylum seekers face multiple language, cultural and administrative barriers that could result in the inappropriate implementation of COVID-19 measures. This study aimed to explore their knowledge and attitudes to recommendations about COVID-19. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among asylum seekers living in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. We used logistic regressions to analyze associations between knowledge about health recommendations, the experience of the pandemic and belief to rumors, and participant sociodemographic characteristics. In total, 242 people participated in the survey, with 63% of men (n = 150) and a median age of 30 years old (IQR 23–40). Low knowledge was associated with linguistic barriers (aOR 0.36, 95% CI 0.14–0.94, p = 0.028) and living in a community center (aOR 0.43, 95% CI 0.22–0.85, p = 0.014). Rejected asylum seekers were more likely to believe COVID-19 rumors (aOR 2.81, 95% CI 1.24–6.36, p = 0.013). This survey underlines the importance of tailori...
JMIR Research Protocols
Background One-third of older inpatients experience adverse drug events (ADEs), which increase th... more Background One-third of older inpatients experience adverse drug events (ADEs), which increase their mortality, morbidity, and health care use and costs. In particular, antithrombotic drugs are among the most at-risk medications for this population. Reporting systems have been implemented at the national, regional, and provider levels to monitor ADEs and design prevention strategies. Owing to their well-known limitations, automated detection technologies based on electronic medical records (EMRs) are being developed to routinely detect or predict ADEs. Objective This study aims to develop and validate an automated detection tool for monitoring antithrombotic-related ADEs using EMRs from 4 large Swiss hospitals. We aim to assess cumulative incidences of hemorrhages and thromboses in older inpatients associated with the prescription of antithrombotic drugs, identify triggering factors, and propose improvements for clinical practice. Methods This project is a multicenter, cross-section...
BMJ Open
ObjectivesTo quantitatively assess the early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on in-person outpati... more ObjectivesTo quantitatively assess the early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on in-person outpatient care utilisation worldwide, as well as across categories of services, types of care and medical specialties.DesignRapid review.MethodA search of MEDLINE and Embase was conducted to identify studies published from 1 January 2020 to 12 February 2021, which quantitatively reported the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the amount of outpatient care services delivered (in-person visits, diagnostic/screening procedures and treatments). There was no restriction on the type of medical care (emergency/primary/specialty care) or target population (adult/paediatric). All articles presenting primary data from studies reporting on outpatient care utilisation were included. Studies describing conditions requiring hospitalisation or limited to telehealth services were excluded.ResultsA total of 517 articles reporting 1011 outpatient care utilisation measures in 49 countries worldwide were eligible...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021
ICD-11 provides a promising new way to capture healthcare-related harm or injury. In this paper, ... more ICD-11 provides a promising new way to capture healthcare-related harm or injury. In this paper, we elaborate on the framework for describing healthcare-related events where there is a presumed causal link between an event and underlying healthcare-related factors. The three-part model for describing healthcare-related harm or injury in ICD-11 consists of (1) a healthcare-related activity that is the cause of injury or other harm (selected from Chapter 23 of ICD-11); (2) a mode or mechanism of injury or harm, related to the underlying cause (also from Chapter 23 of ICD-11); and (3) the harmful consequences of the event to the patient, selected from any of Chapters 1 through 22 of ICD-11 (most importantly, the injury or harm experienced by the patient). Concepts from these three elements are linked/clustered through postcoordination to reflect the three-part model in a single coded expression. ICD-11 contains many novel features, and the three-part model described here for healthcare...
BMC Health Services Research
Background Population ageing puts pressure on health systems initially designed to handle acute a... more Background Population ageing puts pressure on health systems initially designed to handle acute and episodic illnesses. Segmenting an ageing population based on its healthcare utilization may enable policymakers to undertake evidence-based resource planning. We aimed to derive a typology of healthcare utilization trajectories in Swiss older adults. Methods Our work used data from the Lc65 + study, a population-based cohort of individuals aged 65 to 70 years at enrolment. The dimensions of healthcare utilization considered were ambulatory care, emergency care, hospitalizations, professional home care and nursing home stay. We applied the Sequence Analysis framework, within which we quantified the variation between each multidimensional pair of sequences, implemented a clustering procedure that grouped together older persons with similar profiles of health services use, and characterized clusters of individuals using selected baseline covariates. Results Healthcare utilization traject...
Revue du Rhumatisme, 2007
... Tenue du dossier médical en médecine générale. ... [11] J. Roukema, K. Renske, SE Bleeker, AM... more ... Tenue du dossier médical en médecine générale. ... [11] J. Roukema, K. Renske, SE Bleeker, AM Van Ginnenken, J. Van der Lei and HA Moll, Paper versus computer: feasibility of an electronic medical record in general pediatrics, Pediatrics 117 (1) (2006), pp. 1521. ...
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2012
Background: Common low back pain represents a major public health problem in terms of its direct ... more Background: Common low back pain represents a major public health problem in terms of its direct cost to health care and its socioeconomic repercussions. Ten percent of individuals who suffer from low back pain evolve toward a chronic case and as such are responsible for 75 to 80% of the direct cost of low back pain. It is therefore imperative to highlight the predictive factors of low back pain chronification in order to lighten the economic burden of low back pain-related invalidity. Despite being particularly affected by low back pain, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL) personnel have never been offered a specific, tailor-made treatment plan. The PRESLO study (with PRESLO referring to Secondary Low Back Pain Prevention, or in French, PREvention Secondaire de la LOmbalgie), proposed by HCL occupational health services and the Centre Médico-Chirurgical et de Réadaptation des Massues-Croix Rouge Française, is a randomized trial that aims to evaluate the feasibility and efficiency of a global secondary low back pain prevention program for the low back pain sufferers among HCL hospital personnel, a population at risk for recurrence and chronification. This program, which is based on the concept of physical retraining, employs a multidisciplinary approach uniting physical activity, cognitive education about low back pain and lumbopelvic morphotype analysis. No study targeting populations at risk for low back pain chronification has as yet evaluated the efficiency of lighter secondary prevention programs.
La pandémie de SARS-COV-2 a amené le Conseil fédéral à prendre des mesures inédites de semi-confi... more La pandémie de SARS-COV-2 a amené le Conseil fédéral à prendre des mesures inédites de semi-confinement au cours du mois de mars 2020. Dans ce contexte, une réorganisation du système de santé a été nécessaire, et des annulations et/ou reports de soins médicaux ont eu lieu. Cette situation, parallèlement à la peur de s'infecter ou de surcharger les services de santé, notamment, a sans doute conduit des patient-e-s à renoncer à certains soins médicaux. L'objectif principal de ce projet est d'estimer la prévalence globale du renoncement aux soins et des différents types de soins renoncés durant la 1ère vague de la pandémie de COVID-19. L'objectif secondaire est d'examiner les facteurs associés à ce renoncement.
International Journal of Public Health
Objectives: To explore how perceived disease threat and trust in institutions relate to vaccinati... more Objectives: To explore how perceived disease threat and trust in institutions relate to vaccination intent, perceived effectiveness of official recommendations, and to othering strategies.Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of Swiss adults in July 2020. Outcome variables were vaccination intent, perceived effectiveness of official recommendations and othering strategies (labelling a given social group as responsible for the disease and distancing from it). Independent variables were perceived disease threat, trust in various institutions, perceived health-related measures, and sociodemographic variables. Linear and logistic regressions were performed.Results: The response rate was 20.2% (1518/7500). Perceived disease threat and trust in medical/scientific institutions were positively associated with vaccination intent and perceived effectiveness of official recommendations for coronavirus mitigation measures. Only disease threat was associated with a perception of effecti...
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for HPI. (DOCX 16 kb)
usual treatment (intervention group) are compared in terms of low back pain recurrence and the im... more usual treatment (intervention group) are compared in terms of low back pain recurrence and the impairments Denis et al. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2012, 13:234
International Journal of Population Data Science, Feb 25, 2020
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Sante publique, 2013
AIM Antihypertensive drugs are thought to be responsible for adverse drug events in 25% of patien... more AIM Antihypertensive drugs are thought to be responsible for adverse drug events in 25% of patients, with severe consequences in 13% of cases. The purpose of this study was to develop an interactive booklet designed to inform and involve patients with a view to preventing adverse drug events. METHODS The development of the booklet involved several stages, including a literature review, a Delphi survey, a readability assessment, a qualitative study in primary care, a revision process, and graphic design work. 27 experts (patients, general practitioners, public health practitioners, cardiologists, geriatricians, psychologists, economists, pharmacists, nurses and ethicists) participated in the Delphi survey, while the qualitative study was based on a sample that included 7 doctors, 13 patients and 2 healthcare assistants. RESULTS We developed an interactive booklet containing information items on the benefits and risks of antihypertensive drugs, a care plan to be completed by the patie...
Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges
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