Managing mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers during covid-19 pandemic

The BMJ

Volumn 368, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Greenberg, Neil ^a   Docherty, Mary ^b   Gnanapragasam, Sam ^b   Wessely, Simon ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MORALITY; NOTE; PANDEMIC; PATIENT CARE; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REASSURANCE; AFTERCARE; BETACORONAVIRUS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

AFTERCARE; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MORALS; PANDEMICS; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

EID: 85082561567     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m1211     Document Type: Note

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