“…Mergers are associated with increases in general anxiety disorders (Wang et al, 2012), exhaustion, functional incapacity (Vaananen et al, 2004), and psychiatric events (Vaananen et al, 2011). Earlier research on hospital staff has shown that mergers are associated with emotional costs due to anxiety, uncertainty, higher workloads (Fulop et al, 2005), and increased sickness absence (Kjekshus et al, 2014).…”