Learning a palliative care approach during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study in an Infectious Diseases Unit.
S TanziS AlquatiGianfranco MartucciLudovica de PanfilisPublished in: Palliative medicine (2020)
From the perspective of palliative care, some changes in usual care needed to be made. These included breaking bad news, patients' use of communication devices, the limited time available for the delivery of care, managing death necessarily only inside the hospital, and relationships with families.