Background: The recent COVID-19 pandemic increased pressure upon healthcare
resources resulting in compromised health services. Enforced national lockdown led to …

Background While people in the societies must stay home to reduce spread of the newly
discovered coronavirus, healthcare professionals do the exact opposite. For them the …

Background COVID-19 has challenged health systems worldwide, especially the health
workforce, a pillar crucial for health systems resilience. Therefore, strengthening health …

Aim To explore healthcare workers' experiences of the changed caring reality during the
COVID‐19 pandemic in Sweden. Design An online fully mixed‐methods design. Methods A …

Healthcare workers have faced an unprecedented workload in overstretched health facilities
during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we describe various initiatives to support them …

Methods This article draws from 40 interviews conducted with intensive care unit (ICU) staff
in units that were overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. The study participants were …

The aim of this study was to describe the experiences of healthcare workers during the first
wave of the coronavirus crisis. In a mixed-methods study, data were collected through an …

Background The “long tail” of the COVID-19 pandemic will be reflected in disabling
symptoms that persist, fluctuate or recur for extended periods for an estimated 20%–30% of …

Healthcare workers across the world have risen to the demands of treating COVID-19
patients, potentially at significant cost to their own health and wellbeing. There has been …

The study seeks to explore experiences and perceived needs of patients in source isolation
and healthcare professionals' management of COVID-19 patients to inform practice in the …