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ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2022

Silver linings: will the COVID-19 pandemic instigate long overdue mental health support services for healthcare workers?

Tim Stephens, Emily A Vail, Jo Billings

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Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Impact of Post-COVID-19 Condition on Frontline Healthcare Workers: A Scoping Review.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Tim StephensCritical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; Adult Critical Care Unit, The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: t.t.stephens@qmul.ac.uk.
Emily A VailDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Jo BillingsDivision of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK.
Royal London Hospital · GBUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A study in this month's journal adds to the growing body of evidence regarding the potential mental health impacts on frontline healthcare staff working during the COVID-19 pandemic. As clinical academics representing critical care, nursing, and medicine, and a psychologist guiding support for frontline health and social workers, we offer our perspectives on this study. We discuss the balance between pragmatic and rigorous data collection on this topic and offer perspectives on the observed differential impact on nurses. Finally, we suggest that the pandemic might have a positive effect by instigating more robust mental health support services for National Health Service workers.

Indexed as

COVID-19Health PersonnelHumansMental HealthPandemicsSARS-CoV-2State MedicineCOVID-19functional impairmenthealthcare workerintensive caremental healthpost-traumatic stress disorder

Identifiers

PMID35428511
PMCPMC8940569
OpenAlexW4220984793

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