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Resilience: the need to address it from frontline, to organizational, and national levels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2025

Mohamad G. Fakih*
Affiliation:
Clinical Services, Ascension, St. Louis, MO, USA Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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Corresponding author: Mohamad Fakih; Email: mohamad.fakih@ascension.org

Abstract

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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