GuidelineThe European respiratory journal2020
COVID-19: guidance on palliative care from a European Respiratory Society international task force.
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- The impact of therapeutics on mortality in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analyses informing the European Respiratory Society living guideline.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021Guideline
- Pharmacological strategies used to manage symptoms of patients dying of COVID-19: A rapid systematic review.Palliative medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Opportunities to improve COVID-19 provider communication resources: A systematic review.Patient education and counseling · 2021Pooled it
- Death and dying during the COVID-19-pandemic - A qualitative evaluation of stress factors for nursing staff.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- Integration of rehabilitation and palliation for people with severe lung disease or heart failure - a scoping review.European clinical respiratory journal · 2025Review
- Estimates of population-level palliative care need in the UK: a descriptive analysis of mortality data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Situation, Education, Innovation, and Recommendation: A Large-Scale Systematic Review of Advance Care Planning in the Age of COVID-19.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Clinical research stakeholders' experiences of clinical research during COVID-19: a qualitative study.BMC research notes · 2023Article
- Specialized palliative care for hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: an analysis of the LEOSS registry.Infection · 2023Article
- Pharmacological Proposal Approach to Managing Chronic Pain Associated with COVID-19.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- A qualitative descriptive study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on staff in a Canadian intensive care unit.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023Article
- Quality of Telehealth-Delivered Inpatient Palliative Care During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2023Article
- Advanced care planning in the early phase of COVID-19: a rapid review of the practice and policy lessons learned.Frontiers in health services · 2023Review
- The significance of the COVID-19 pandemic for family caregivers of non-COVID-19 patients in need of specialized palliative care at home: a qualitative study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2022Article
- Symptom management in people dying with COVID-19: multinational observational study.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2022Observational
- Specialist Palliative Care Consultations in COVID-19 Patients in the ICU-A Retrospective Analysis of Patient Characteristics and Symptoms at a German University Hospital.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Prediction of Noninvasive Ventilation Failure in COVID-19 Patients: When Shall We Stop?Cureus · 2022Article
- COVID-19, Suffering and Palliative Care: A Review.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2022Review
- European Respiratory Society statement on long COVID follow-up.The European respiratory journal · 2022Article
- Update June 2022: management of hospitalised adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a European Respiratory Society living guideline.The European respiratory journal · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundMany people are dying from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but consensus guidance on palliative care in COVID-19 is lacking. This new life-threatening disease has put healthcare systems under pressure, with the increased need of palliative care provided to many patients by clinicians who have limited prior experience in this field. Therefore, we aimed to make consensus recommendations for palliative care for patients with COVID-19 using the Convergence of Opinion on Recommendations and Evidence (CORE) process.
methodsWe invited 90 international experts to complete an online survey including stating their agreement, or not, with 14 potential recommendations. At least 70% agreement on directionality was needed to provide consensus recommendations. If consensus was not achieved on the first round, a second round was conducted.
results68 (75.6%) experts responded in the first round. Most participants were experts in palliative care, respiratory medicine or critical care medicine. In the first round, consensus was achieved on 13 recommendations based upon indirect evidence and clinical experience. In the second round, 58 (85.3%) out of 68 of the first-round experts responded, resulting in consensus for the 14th recommendation.
conclusionThis multi-national task force provides consensus recommendations for palliative care for patients with COVID-19 concerning: advance care planning; (pharmacological) palliative treatment of breathlessness; clinician-patient communication; remote clinician-family communication; palliative care involvement in patients with serious COVID-19; spiritual care; psychosocial care; and bereavement care. Future studies are needed to generate empirical evidence for these recommendations.
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