2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.11.016
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Development of a Novel Communication Liaison Program to Support COVID-19 Patients and Their Families

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“…The free-text comments showed a high level of creativity and willingness from the health care professionals to support relatives and assist them with maintaining contact with the patients. This has also been reported by other healthcare professionals (Kanaris, 2020) and several different approaches have been created, both on the ICU ( Cohen, 2020 , Lipworth et al, 2021 ) and national levels (ComuniCovid, 2020; Rose et al, 2020 ). For some of the participating ICUs in the current study, the pandemic entailed general improvements in family care such as daily relative-intensivist conversations, new follow-up initiatives and methods to maintain contact between relatives and patients when physically apart.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 64%
“…The free-text comments showed a high level of creativity and willingness from the health care professionals to support relatives and assist them with maintaining contact with the patients. This has also been reported by other healthcare professionals (Kanaris, 2020) and several different approaches have been created, both on the ICU ( Cohen, 2020 , Lipworth et al, 2021 ) and national levels (ComuniCovid, 2020; Rose et al, 2020 ). For some of the participating ICUs in the current study, the pandemic entailed general improvements in family care such as daily relative-intensivist conversations, new follow-up initiatives and methods to maintain contact between relatives and patients when physically apart.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 64%
“…25 Future research could explore how communication between health and social care professionals and relatives when a family member was at end of life varied between different health and care settings, to better understand best practices surrounding communication at end of life during a pandemic. 26,27 Some relatives reflected that they would have welcomed guidance from health and social care professionals surrounding how to prepare children for the death of a relative. It appeared from the findings that such familycentred care was lacking as communication from healthcare teams was predominately focused on clinically-driven care.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 25 Future research could explore how communication between health and social care professionals and relatives when a family member was at end of life varied between different health and care settings, to better understand best practices surrounding communication at end of life during a pandemic. 26 , 27 …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This was recognised as a challenge during the pandemic as most healthcare organisations or government policies directed that visiting was greatly reduced or suspended. There are numerous papers that have described how organisations had implemented similar roles, providing details on the training for people in liaison roles and a checklist to guide how information was delivered (15-17). At a time when organisations were struggling to provide family support, this was invaluable but as we moved from the first to subsequent waves, it was important to determine whether this support adequately fulfilled the needs of families, patients and reduced burden to clinical teams.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%