1. COVID-19 pandemic: a catalyst for accelerating global action on patient safety.
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Grant R, Benamouzig D, Catton H, Cheng VC, Dhingra N, Laxminarayan R, Legido-Quigley H, Martinez SL, Marikar K, Mendelson M, Parneix P, Perencevich E, Singh H, Tschudin-Sutter S, Ushiro S, Wesangula E, Gardiol C, Dziekan G, Harbarth S, and Pittet D
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- Humans, Patient Safety, Pandemics prevention & control, COVID-19
- Abstract
Competing Interests: VC-CC is member of the research committee of Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All other authors declare no competing interests. We want to thank the scientific and public health experts, Ministerial delegations, and high-level representatives for their participation in the fifth Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety. We are particularly grateful to the Federal Office of Public Health of Switzerland, and Murielle Galas Haddad and Niccolò Buetti (Infection Control Programme, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland), for their contributions to organising the scientific programme of the Global Ministerial Summit related to the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for patient safety.
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- 2023
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