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Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety
Safe health workers, Safe patients
According to WHO: "The COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled the huge challenges and risks health workers are facing globally including health care associated infections, violence, stigma, psychological and emotional disturbances, illness and even death. Furthermore, working in stressful environments makes health workers more prone to errors which can lead to patient harm."
At the occasion of the World Patient Safety Day 2020 we "Speak up for health worker safety":

Healthcare worker resilience: how to deal with crisis
PD Dr.med. Sven Staender
President of the EuPSF
Second victim effect and the importance of resilience of healthcare workers during and beyond Covid-19: Interview

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Strametz
Professor of Medicine for Economists
General Secretary of German Coalition for Patient Safety (Germany)
Prof. Dr. Peter Dieckmann
Professor for Healthcare Education
and Patient Safety, Senior Researcher
(Denmark, Norway)


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