Palliative care and COVID-19: acknowledging past mistakes to forge a better future.

ABSTRACT:

Context

COVID-19 induces complex distress across physical, psychological, and social realms and palliative care (PC) has the potential to mitigate this suffering significantly.

Objectives

To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients with an indication of PC, compared to patients who had no indication, in different pandemic waves.

Methods

This retrospective multicenter observational cohort included patients from 40 hospitals, admitted from March 2020 to August 2022. Patients who had an indication of palliative care (PC) described in their medical records were included in the palliative care group (PCG), while those who had no such indication in their medical records were allocated to the non-palliative care group (NPCG).

Results

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SUBMITTER: de Andrade CRM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11306131 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature