Critical Care Staffing in Pandemics and Disasters: A Consensus Report From a Subcommittee of the Task Force for Mass Critical Care- Systems Strategies to Sustain the Health Care Workforce.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented mental health disturbances, burnout, and moral distress among health-care workers, affecting their ability to care for themselves and their patients.

Methods

The Workforce Sustainment subcommittee of the Task Force for Mass Critical Care (TFMCC) utilized a consensus development process, incorporating evidence from literature review with expert opinion through a modified Delphi approach to determine factors affecting mental health, burnout, and moral distress in health-care workers, to propose necessary actions to help prevent these issues, and enhance workforce resilience, sustainment, and retention.

Results

Consolidation of evidence gathered from literature review and expert opinion resulted in 197 total state

SUBMITTER: Sprung CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10007715 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature