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“Saying goodbye all alone with no close support was difficult”- Dying during the COVID-19 pandemic: an online survey among bereaved relatives about end-of-life care for patients with or without SARS-CoV2 infection

2021; BioMed Central; Volume: 21; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s12913-021-06987-z

1472-6963

Karlotta Schloesser, Steffen T. Simon, Berenike Pauli, Raymond Voltz, Norma Jung, Charlotte Leisse, Agnes van der Heide, Ida J. Korfage, Anne Pralong, Claudia Bausewein, Melanie Joshi, Julia Strupp,

Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units

During the SARS-CoV2 pandemic, protection measures, as well as visiting restrictions, had a severe impact on seriously ill and dying patients and their relatives. The study aims to describe the experiences of bereaved relatives of patients who died during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic, regardless of whether patients were infected with SARS-CoV2 or not. As part of this, experiences related to patients' end-of-life care, saying goodbye, visiting restrictions and communication with the healthcare team were assessed.