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Companion restrictions in the emergency department during COVID-19: physician perceptions from the Western Cape, South Africa.

Lauren E WiebeHelle Molsted AlvessonWillem Stassen
Published in: BMJ open (2023)
The reflections of providers can feed into discussions about values within the healthcare system and can help explore the balance between medical and social safety, especially with companion restrictions still being practised in some hospitals. These perceptions illuminate various tradeoffs physicians had to consider throughout the pandemic and may be used to improve companion policies when planning for the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic and future disease outbreaks.
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