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Understanding the role and deployment of volunteers within specialist palliative care services and organisations as they have adjusted to the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-national EAPC volunteer taskforce survey

  • Catherine Walshe
  • Leszek Pawłowski
  • Sophie Shedel
  • Steven Vanderstichelen
  • Melissa J Bloomer
  • Anne Goossensen
  • Joaquín T Limonero
  • Karen Sangild Stoelen
  • Chiara Caraffa
  • Leena Pelttari
  • Ros Scott

Abstract

Background:
Early indications were of a major decline in specialist palliative care volunteer numbers during COVID-19. It is important that ongoing deployment and role of volunteers is understood, given the dependence of many palliative care services on ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Nov 25, 2022
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Understanding advance care planning in care homes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: A critical realist review and synthesis

  • Adam Spacey
  • Sam Porter

Abstract

Background:
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted advance care planning discussions in care homes, particularly discussions involving relatives and surrogate decision makers. There is a need to collate and examine current evidence to assess the extent of the ...
Open AccessReview articleFirst published Nov 12, 2022
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“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

  • Laura M Holdsworth
  • Heather Z Mui
  • Marcy Winget
  • Karl A Lorenz

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 ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Oct 28, 2022
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Virtual home-based palliative care during COVID-19: A qualitative exploration of the patient, caregiver, and healthcare provider experience

  • Daniel Vincent
  • Cayden Peixoto
  • Kieran L Quinn
  • Kwadwo Kyeremanteng
  • Genevieve Lalumiere
  • Allison M Kurahashi
  • Nathalie Gilbert
  • Sarina R Isenberg

Abstract

Background:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many community palliative healthcare providers shifted from providing care in a patient’s home to providing almost exclusively virtual palliative care, or a combination of in-person and virtual care. Research on ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Sep 7, 2022
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Bereavement outcomes in family members of those who died in acute care hospitals before and during the first wave of COVID-19: A cohort study

  • James Downar
  • Henrique A. Parsons
  • Leila Cohen
  • Ella Besserer
  • Samantha Adeli
  • Valérie Gratton
  • Rebekah Murphy
  • Grace Warmels
  • Adrianna Bruni
  • Khadija Bhimji
  • Claire Dyason
  • Paula Enright
  • Isabelle Desjardins
  • Krista Wooller
  • Monisha Kabir
  • Chelsea Noel
  • Brandon Heidinger
  • Koby Anderson
  • Kyle Arsenault-Mehta
  • Julie Lapenskie
  • Colleen Webber
  • Daniel Bedard
  • Akshai Iyengar
  • Shirley H Bush
  • Sarina R Isenberg
  • Peter Tanuseputro
  • Brandi Vanderspank-Wright
  • Peter Lawlor

Abstract

Background:
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of deaths worldwide, leading to symptoms of grief among the bereaved. Neither the burden of severe grief nor its predictors are fully known within the context of the pandemic.
Aim:
To determine the ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Jul 4, 2022
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Inadequate human resources, equipment and training: A qualitative assessment of the objectives of the NUHELP end-of-life care programme in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Emilio Mota Romero
  • Daniel Puente Fernández
  • Carmen Rodríguez Pertíñez
  • Gema Árbol Fernández
  • Socorro Moreno Guerrero
  • Rafael Montoya Juárez

Abstract

Background:
The COVID-19 pandemic had a particularly severe impact on nursing homes, exposing numerous pre-existing deficiencies in end-of-life care.
Aim:
To describe how the COVID-19 pandemic affected nursing home and primary care professionals’ attempts to ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Jun 21, 2022
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COVID-19: Challenges and solutions for the provision of care to seriously ill and dying people and their relatives during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic – perspectives of pandemic response team members: A qualitative study on the basis of expert interviews (part of PallPan)

  • Isabell Klinger
  • Maria Heckel
  • Sophie Shahda
  • Ursula Kriesen
  • Carolin Schneider
  • Sandra Kurkowski
  • Christian Junghanss
  • Christoph Ostgathe

Abstract

Background:
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic’s initial waves, bans on visiting and isolation measures placed limits on providing services for seriously ill and dying people and their relatives. Pandemic response teams at governmental level (macro), at ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published May 30, 2022
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Moral distress amongst palliative care doctors working during the COVID-19 pandemic: A narrative-focussed interview study

  • Ellis C. Fish
  • Anna Lloyd

Abstract

Background:
Palliative care professionals have had to adapt to rapidly changing COVID-19 restrictions with personal protective equipment and physical distancing measures impacting face-to-face communication with patients and relatives.
Aim:
To explore the ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published May 12, 2022
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Identifying barriers and facilitators to palliative care integration in the management of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: A qualitative study

  • Kirsten Wentlandt MHSci
  • Kayla T. Wolofsky
  • Andrea Weiss
  • Lindsay Hurlburt
  • Eddy Fan
  • Ebru Kaya
  • Erin O’Connor
  • Warren Lewin
  • Cassandra Graham
  • Camilla Zimmermann
  • Sarina R. Isenberg

Abstract

Background:
Palliative care is well suited to support patients hospitalized with COVID-19, but integration into care has been variable and generally poor.
Aim:
To understand barriers and facilitators of palliative care integration for hospitalized patients ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Apr 20, 2022
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It’s like standing in front of a prison fence – Dying during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic: A qualitative study of bereaved relatives’ experiences

  • Berenike Pauli
  • Julia Strupp
  • Karlotta Schloesser
  • Raymond Voltz
  • Norma Jung
  • Charlotte Leisse
  • Claudia Bausewein
  • Anne Pralong
  • Steffen T Simon
  • for the PallPan consortium

Abstract

Background:
Since the onset of the SARS CoV2 pandemic, protective and isolation measures had a strong impact on the care and support provided to seriously ill and dying people at the end-of-life.
Aim:
Exploring bereaved relatives’ experiences of end-of-life ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Mar 29, 2022
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