The rise of resilient healthcare research during COVID-19: scoping review of empirical research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many multi-faceted challenges to the maintenance of service quality and safety, highlighting the need for resilient and responsive healthcare systems more than ever before. This review examined empirical investigations of Resilient Health Care (RHC) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with the aim to: identify key areas of research; synthesise findings on capacities that develop RHC across system levels (micro, meso, macro); and identify reported adverse consequences of the effort of maintaining system performance on system agents (healthcare workers, patients).

Methods

Three academic databases were searched (Medline, EMBASE, Scopus) from 1st January 2020 to 30th August 2022 using keywords pertaining to: systems resilience and

SUBMITTER: Ellis LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10405417 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature