The importance of trustworthiness: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Paediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics and the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. jdavis@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.

Mary B Leonard et al. Pediatr Res. 2022 Feb.

. 2022 Feb;91(3):482-485.

doi: 10.1038/s41390-021-01866-z. Epub 2021 Dec 1.

¹ Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Paediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics and the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. jdavis@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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