Tough Decisions During the COVID 19 Pandemic: A Frail Latino Patient

The pandemic of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had overwhelmed the healthcare system worldwide with multiple ethical dilemmas. Several tools have been used to assess risk factors in these patients. One of them, the Clinical Frailty scale, has shown good correlation...

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Autores principales: Huayanay, Irma, Luu, Stephanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on Older Adults, Families, Caregivers, Health Care Providers and Communities
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33225019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721420970336
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spelling pubmed-76499142020-11-19 Tough Decisions During the COVID 19 Pandemic: A Frail Latino Patient Huayanay, Irma Luu, Stephanie Gerontol Geriatr Med The COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on Older Adults, Families, Caregivers, Health Care Providers and Communities The pandemic of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had overwhelmed the healthcare system worldwide with multiple ethical dilemmas. Several tools have been used to assess risk factors in these patients. One of them, the Clinical Frailty scale, has shown good correlation between the patient functional status and hospital stay with overall mortality. We present a case were the Clinical Frailty Scale was used to assess patient management and goals of care. SAGE Publications 2020-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7649914/ /pubmed/33225019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721420970336 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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