The paper highlights methods that can be used to assess disability screening, sports medicine committees and primary care setting procedures.

Aim We examined the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on how many children were admitted to Israel's largest tertiary paediatric hospital and why they were admitted. Methods Israel declared COVID‐19 a national emergency on 19 March 2020. This study examined daily hospital admissions to our three general paediatric wards during the COVID‐19 lockdown period from 20 March to 18 April 2020. These 258 admissions were compared with the 4217 admissions from the period immediately before this, 1 February to 19 March 2020, plus 1 February to 18 April in 2018 and 2019. We also compared why patients were admitted during the study period, and any pre‐existing conditions, with 638 children hospitalised during the same period in 2019. Results The mean number of daily hospitalisations during the COVID‐19 lockdown period was 8.6, which was 59% lower than the 20.9 recorded during the other three periods before COVID‐19. There was a significant decrease in the number of patients admitted with infectious (74%) and non‐infectious (44%) aetiologies from 2019 to 2020, and these occurred among patients with (58%), and without (55%), pre‐existing medical conditions. Conclusion The Israeli COVID‐19 lockdown had a dramatic effect on admissions to the paediatric wards of a tertiary hospital.

An outbreak of leptospirosis that involved 7 of a team of 27 Israeli troops occurred following a military exercise in northern Israel near the Jordan River. The organism implicated in the outbreak was Leptospira interrogans serovar Hardjo. The clinical course was uncomplicated and all patients fully recovered. There were no cases of asymptomatic infection. Military personnel should be recognized as having an occupational risk for contracting leptospirosis, especially when military activity takes place near natural water sources inhabited by cattle, taking into account the local epidemiology of this disease. Moreover, outbreaks among military personnel may serve as a sentinel for leptospiral illness in areas in which civilian exposure takes place, such as the Jordan River, which is an important site that involves immersion in the context of both pilgrimage and civilian recreational activities."Bathe and you will become clean. So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, as Elisha had told him to do. And his flesh became clean once more like the flesh of a small child."II Kings 5:14.

The computerized system allows efficient follow-up and management of medical processes and informatics, led to a better utilization of human and medical resources, and becomes a component of the decision making by the system operators and the administrative staff. Such a system could be used with success in clinics, hospitals, and other medical facilities.