Investigating Resilience in Healthcare: Easier Said Than Done? A Response to the Recent Commentaries

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1 Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

2 Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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It is a great pleasure to provide this response to the recent commentaries on our article “Government Actions and Their Relation to Resilience in Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New South Wales, Australia and Ontario, Canada.”1 We wish to begin by expressing our appreciation to the authors for the time and effort they devoted to these commentaries. ...(Read more...)

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  • Receive Date: 16 September 2022
  • Revise Date: 17 September 2022
  • Accept Date: 26 September 2022
  • First Publish Date: 28 September 2022

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