Surgeons’ involvement in COVID-19 treatment: a practice by a regional core hospital in Japan to avoid physician burnout

Abstract Background To prevent task accumulation on certain divisions, our institution developed a unique system of allocating inpatient treatment of COVID-19 patients to doctors who were not specialized in respiratory infections. The objective of this study was to investigate whether surgeons can b...

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Main Authors: Yugo Matsui, Siyuan Yao, Takashi Kumode, Keisuke Tanino, Ryosuke Mizuno, Yusuke Ogoshi, Shusaku Honma, Teppei Murakami, Takatsugu Kan, Sanae Nakajima, Takehisa Harada, Koji Oh, Takehiro Nakamura, Hiroki Konishi, Shigeki Arii
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-01-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09042-1