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ArticleFuture healthcare journal2020

Care of the dying person before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A quality improvement project.

Simon Tavabie, Steve Bass, Eleanor Stewart, Ethan Redmore, Ollie Minton

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Article in Future healthcare journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Simon TavabieMarie Curie Hospice, Hampstead, UK.
Steve BassBrighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK.
Eleanor StewartBrighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK.
Ethan RedmoreBrighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK.
Ollie MintonBrighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the redeployment of NHS staff to acute-facing specialties, meaning that care of dying people is being provided by those who may not have much experience in this area. This report details how a plan, do, study, act (PDSA) approach was taken to implementing improved, standardised multidisciplinary documentation of individualised care and review for people who are in the last hours or days of life, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The documentation and training produced is subject to ongoing review via the specialist palliative care team's continuously updated hospital deaths dashboard, which evaluates the care of patients who have died in the trust. We hope that sharing the experiences and outcomes of this process will help other trusts to develop their own pathways and improve the care of dying people through this difficult time and beyond.

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COVID-19dyingend of lifepalliative

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PMID33094255
PMCPMC7571725

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