How to Effectively Break Bad News: The COVID-19 Etiquettes

Affiliations

¹ Dept. of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
² Dept. of Psychiatry, Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
³ Dept. of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Sai Krishna Tikka et al. Indian J Psychol Med. 2020.

. 2020 Aug 23;42(5):491-493.

doi: 10.1177/0253717620948208. eCollection 2020 Sep.

¹ Dept. of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
² Dept. of Psychiatry, Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
³ Dept. of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

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The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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