Hospital practice (1995)
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Hospital practice (1995) · Dec 2020
EditorialBeyond the PPE shortage: Improperly fitting personal protective equipment and COVID-19 transmission among health care professionals.
Background: Personal protective equipment (PPE) use is required when caring for COVID-19 patients. Proper mask fitting is essential in prevention of infectious agent transmission at hospital setting. ⋯ These cases raise the important issue of PPE fitting. Abbreviations: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Health Care Professional (HCP), Real-time PCR (RT-PCR).
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Hospital practice (1995) · Dec 2019
EditorialHospital administration response to physician stress and burnout.
Recent studies have documented the alarming degree of physician stress and burnout that has affected physician attitudes, behaviors, and performance. Growing dissatisfaction, irritability, and frustration has negatively impacted physician ideals and attitudes which can lead to compromised health care relationships with impaired communication, collaboration, and coordination that can adversely affect satisfaction, clinical performance, and patient outcomes of care. For the most part physicians on their own have a difficult time recognizing or admitting that they are working under stress and burnout conditions, and even if they do, are reluctant to do anything about it. In this regard it is essential for the organization(s) in which the physician is involved with to take a pro- active role in providing support services to help physicians address this issue in a more empathetic, effective, and constructive manner.