Rettelse: Behandling, omsorg og pleie for døende sykehjemspasienter med covid-19

Abstract

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Health Care Personnel’s Perspectives on Quality of Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Cross-Sectional Study

“…The quality of palliative care may have been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to comprehensive restrictions in all health care services: both in the specialist health care and community-based services in Norway. 9 Examples include restrictions regarding visits from relatives and friends, maintaining a distance between people of one or two meters, and wearing facial masks and other protective equipment—all factors that lead to barriers in communication and care 26 for patients and their relatives. This may apply for the care settings included in this study.…”

“…Many of the older patients at risk were those who were admitted into or living in nursing homes, frail, and/or receiving care from personnel who might have been exposed to COVID-19. 9 Pandemics like COVID-19 pose a challenge for the provision of high-quality palliative care, as they result in a surge of patients who need palliative care during their end of life, which may exceed the capacity of palliative care teams. 10 Both in Norway 9 and internationally, 11 , 12 challenges have been observed in caring for these patients, often stemming from an insufficient capacity to treat everyone in need, a lack of equipment for infection control, a high workload, a fear of becoming infected and spreading the virus, and a heavy emotional burden.…”