Fast and frugal innovations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Harris, Matthew; Bhatti, Yasser; Buckley, Jim; Sharma, Dhananjaya

doi:10.1038/s41591-020-0889-1

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“…Other cosmetic firms have also followed suit, as cosmetics and pharmacy manufacturing are closely related ( Arcadi, 2020 ). This type of frugal, need-based innovation implemented with the resources at hand has spread to new areas during the pandemic ( Harris et al 2020 ).…”

Section: Life-saving and Health-improving Technologies During The Panmentioning

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Implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak for innovation: Which technologies will improve our lives?

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2021

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Highlights Analysis of COVIC-19 pandemic effects on certain technologies Overview of technologies which directly relate to the virus treatment Description of technologies that have been used to adapt to live in a pandemic environment Discussion of technological challenges related to innovation logics and their social impacts

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Section: Life-saving and Health-improving Technologies During The Panmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak for innovation: Which technologies will improve our lives?

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Nylund

2021

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…Presently, when even the developing countries are struggling to provide sufficient number of PPEs to their HCPs [42], resource constraints of lower and middle-income countries can lead to troubling shortcomings in the face of this pandemic especially for provider infection prevention and control behaviors like hand hygiene and disinfection [43,44]. However, this opportunity has prompted many frugal innovative responses; these low cost ideas may not be ideal but have the potential to provide good enough healthcare in the best way possible under given constraints [45,46].…”

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Roadmap for Restarting Elective Surgery During/After COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…The need for rapid scaling in every context has led to many frugal innovative responses from LMICs [46]. In the context of surgical services, these include the use of strong exhaust fans in ORs to create a temporary negative pressure room and use of indigenous low-cost heat and moisture exchanger (HME) smoke filters [47,48].…”

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Rapid Scoping Review of Laparoscopic Surgery Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Appraisal Using a Simple Quality Appraisal Tool “EMERGE”

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The theoretical danger of virus transmission during laparoscopic surgery (LS) via surgical smoke and laparoscopy gas has led to the formulation of many guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. This rapid scoping review of these guidelines was done to assess the quality of their evidence and appraise them for their impact on surgical services from the global south. A simple quality appraisal tool was constructed which can be used to evaluate rapidly emerging guidelines for evidence as well as for the needs of the global south. This rapid scoping review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews protocol. Electronic databases were searched with predefined strategy and retrieved papers were screened according to relevant criteria. A simple objective tool to assess the quality of rapidly emerging guidelines including evidence, methodology, ease, resource optimization, geography, and the economy was constructed. Twenty studies met the inclusion criteria. None of the guidelines qualified to be evidence-based clinical practice guidelines as the level of evidence was uniformly rated "low". A newly constructed tool showed good validation, reliability, and internal consistency. This rapid scoping review found two major research gaps: lack of systematic review of evidence during their development and insufficient weightage of their impact on surgical services from the global south. These significant issues were addressed by constructing a simple and more representative tool for evaluating rapidly emerging guidelines which also gives the rightful importance of their impact on surgical services from the global south.

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Fast and frugal innovations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 120 publications

References 20 publications

Implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak for innovation: Which technologies will improve our lives?

Implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak for innovation: Which technologies will improve our lives?

Roadmap for Restarting Elective Surgery During/After COVID-19 Pandemic

Rapid Scoping Review of Laparoscopic Surgery Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Appraisal Using a Simple Quality Appraisal Tool “EMERGE”

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