Dying in times of the coronavirus: An online survey among healthcare professionals about end-of-life care for patients dying with and without COVID-19 (the CO-LIVE study).

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the COVID-19 outbreak restricting measures may have affected the provision of good end-of-life care for patients with and without COVID-19.

Aim

To describe characteristics of patients who died and the care they received, and to examine how patient characteristics, setting and visiting restrictions are related to provided care and evaluation of the dying process.

Design

An open observational online survey among healthcare professionals about their experience of end-of-life care that was provided to a patient with or without COVID-19 who died between March and July 2020.

Setting/participants

Healthcare professionals (nurses, physicians and others) in the Netherlands from all settings: home (n = 163), hospital (n = 249), nursing hom

SUBMITTER: Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8114455 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature