Palliative Care in a Pandemic: A Multicenter Cohort of Critically Ill Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019.

ABSTRACT: Background: Trends in mortality, palliative care, and end-of-life care among critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remain underreported. We hypothesized that use of palliative care and end-of-life care would increase over time, because improved understanding of the disease course and prognosis would potentially lead to more frequent use of these services. Patients and Methods: Adult patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection (SARS-CoV-2) during pandemic wave one (W1: March 2020 to September 2020) or wave two (W2: October 2020 to June 2021) admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) in one of six northeastern U.S. hospitals were identified and clinical characteristics obtained. Vaccination data were unavailabl

SUBMITTER: Kodadek LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10081705 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature