Video and In-Person Palliative Care Delivery Challenges before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Palliative care (PC) clinicians faced many challenges delivering outpatient care during the coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Objectives

We described trends for in-person and video visit PC delivery challenges before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

Methods

We performed a secondary data analysis of patient characteristics and PC clinician surveys from a multisite randomized controlled trial at 20 academic cancer centers. Patients newly diagnosed with advanced lung cancer (N = 653) were randomly assigned to receive either early in-person or telehealth PC and had at least monthly PC clinician visits. PC clinicians completed surveys documenting PC delivery challenges after each encounter. We categorized patients into 3 subgroups according to their P

SUBMITTER: Chua IS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9383956 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature