Study: 1 in 5 physicians highly distressed during first COVID-19 triagesA survey of 164 New York physicians found that one in five were severely distressed during their first COVID-19 triage decisions and last-minute training did not appear to alleviate stress, according to a study yesterday in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.The researchers sent out the online survey Apr 29 to May 1, 2020; on Mar 23, 2020, Gov.
Andrew Cuomo had ordered hospitals to increase capacity by 50% because of the expected patient surge. All respondents were involved in the treatment of at least one COVID patient, and most were also men (59.9%) or working in their usual clinical setting/activity (82.2%).Half had received just-in-time training