Community-based anticipatory prescribing during COVID-19: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand healthcare professionals' experiences of delivering anticipatory prescribing (AP) during the first wave of the UK COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

Semistructured qualitative interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 16 healthcare professionals involved in community palliative care. Data were analysed inductively using thematic analysis.

Results

Some of practitioners' fears about the pandemic's impact on delivering AP had not been realised during the first wave. Among patients with COVID-19 for whom community end-of-life care was deemed appropriate, deaths were perceived to be relatively easy to palliate with standard medications. These deaths were typically too rapid for AP to be appropriate or feasible. For non-COVID deaths, providing ti

SUBMITTER: Antunes BCP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11672004 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature