Moral distress among clinicians working in US safety net practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study.

During the pandemic's first 9 months, moral distress was common among these clinicians working in US safety net practices. But for only one-quarter was this significantly distressing. As reported for hospital-based clinicians during the pandemic, this study's clinicians in safety net practices were often morally distressed by being unable to provide optimal care to patients. New to the literature is clinicians' moral distress from witnessing inequities and other injustices for their patients and communities.