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Global Health Economics and
Sustainability
COVID-19 and the burden on healthcare workers

Conflict of interest Emergency Medicine. Available from: https://acem.org.au/
getmedia/008a96f5-0a2a-4314-865b-219780e6292b/oneed_
The author declares that there are no competing interests. staffwellnesssupportplan [Last accessed on 2020 Nov 01].
Author contributions Braganza, S., Young, J., Sweeny, A., & Brazil, V. (2018) oneEd:
Embedding a mindfulness-based wellness programme into
This is a single-authored article. an emergency department. Emergency Medicine Australasia,
30(5):678-686.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
https://doi.org/10.111/1742-6723.12977
Ethical approval was deemed not to be required, as all data
were retrieved from previously published studies, where Braithwaite, J., Herkes, J., Ludlow, K., Testa, L., & Lamprell, G.
(2017). Association between organisational and workplace
approval was obtained by primary investigators.
cultures, and patient outcomes: Systematic review. BMJ
Consent for publication Open, 7(11):e017708.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017708
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Chua, W.L.T., Quah, L.J.J., Shen, Y., Zakaria, N.D., Wan, P.W.,
Availability of data Tan, K., et al. (2020). Emergency department “outbreak
rostering” to meet challenges of COVID-19. Emergency
The datasets used and/or analyzed during this study are Medicine Journal, 37(7):407-410.
available from the corresponding author on reasonable
request. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2020-209614
Felice, C., Di Tanna, G., Zanus, G., & Grossi, U. (2020). Impact
Further disclosure of covid-19 outbreak on healthcare workers in Italy: Results
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45(4):675-683.
preprint server, MedRxiv (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/20
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