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. 2023 Oct;23(10):1108-1110.
doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00485-1. Epub 2023 Aug 9.

COVID-19 pandemic: a catalyst for accelerating global action on patient safety

Rebecca Grant  1 , Daniel Benamouzig  2 , Howard Catton  3 , Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng  4 , Neelam Dhingra  5 , Ramanan Laxminarayan  6 , Helena Legido-Quigley  7 , Susanna Lorenzo Martinez  8 , Kadar Marikar  9 , Marc Mendelson  10 , Pierre Parneix  11 , Eli Perencevich  12 , Hardeep Singh  13 , Sarah Tschudin-Sutter  14 , Shin Ushiro  15 , Evelyn Wesangula  16 , Céline Gardiol  17 , Gerald Dziekan  17 , Stephan Harbarth  1 , Didier Pittet  18
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COVID-19 pandemic: a catalyst for accelerating global action on patient safety

Rebecca Grant et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2023 Oct.
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Conflict of interest statement

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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