ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Moral Distress in Hospitals During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Web-Based Survey Among 3,293 Healthcare Workers Within the German Network University Medicine.
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Juliane Nora SchneiderDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn, Medical Faculty, Bonn, Germany.
Nina HiebelDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn, Medical Faculty, Bonn, Germany.
Milena Kriegsmann-RabeDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn, Medical Faculty, Bonn, Germany.
Jonas SchmuckDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn, Medical Faculty, Bonn, Germany.
Yesim ErimDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Eva MorawaDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
Lucia Jerg-BretzkeDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany.
Petra BeschonerDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Ulm University Medical Center, Ulm, Germany.
Christian AlbusDepartment of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Julian HannemannDepartment of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Kerstin WeidnerDepartment of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Susann Steudte-SchmiedgenDepartment of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Lukas RadbruchDepartment of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Medical Faculty, Bonn, Germany.
Holger BrunschDepartment of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Medical Faculty, Bonn, Germany.
Franziska GeiserDepartment of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn, Medical Faculty, Bonn, Germany.
University Hospital Bonn · DETU Dresden · DEUniversitätsklinikum Erlangen · DEUniversität Ulm · DEUniversity Hospital Cologne · DEUniversity of Cologne · DE
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