Health care professionals and end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Esther Angélica Luiz FerreiraCristina Ortiz Sobrinho ValeteAndré Filipe Junqueira Dos SantosJuliana Nalin de Souza PassariniAlexandre Ernesto SilvaMichelle Uchida MiwaPublished in: Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) (2021)
Self-reported anguish was more frequent in physicians and when the disagreement about end-of-life care occurred. Low quality of life was more frequent when health care professionals did not have time to talk to patients' relatives and was less frequent when health care professionals agreed that medical care was enough. Strategies should be done by health services to reduce the impact of the pandemic on health care professionals.