'Necessity is the mother of invention': Specialist palliative care service innovation and practice change in response to COVID-19. Results from a multinational survey (CovPall).

Lesley Dunleavy Nancy J Preston Sabrina Bajwah Andy Bradshaw Rachel L Cripps Lorna Katherine Fraser Maddocks MatthewMevhibe HocaogluFliss E M Murtagh Adejoke Obirenjeyi Oluyase Katherine E Sleeman Irene J Higginson Catherine Walshe

Published in: Palliative medicine (2021)

Specialist palliative care services have been flexible, highly adaptive and have adopted low-cost solutions, also called 'frugal innovations', in response to COVID-19. In addition to financial support, greater collaboration is essential to minimise duplication of effort and optimise resource use.ISRCTN16561225 https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN16561225.

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