"Never waste a good crisis": A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on palliative care in seven hospitals using the Dynamic Sustainability Framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic led to rapid adaptations among palliative care services, but it is unclear how these adaptations vary in relation to their unique organizational contexts.

Aim

Understand how the pandemic impacted the implementation of new and existing palliative care programs in diverse hospital systems using the Dynamic Sustainability Framework.

Design

Twelve in-depth interviews with 15 key informants representing palliative care programs from seven hospital systems between April and June 2020.

Setting

Public, not-for-profit private, community, and academic teaching hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area with existing palliative care programs that were expanding services to new clinical areas (e.g. new outpatient clinic or community-based care

SUBMITTER: Holdsworth LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9618919 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature