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Drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic
This article discusses drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reviews the ethical dilemmas of individual autonomy versus societal justice, human beneficence versus public health non-maleficence that arose during the pandemic due to prolonged, high acutit...
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Elsevier Inc.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530776/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34690037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2021.09.019 |
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author | Ben-Jacob, Talia K. Peterson, Lars-Kristofer N. |
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description | This article discusses drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reviews the ethical dilemmas of individual autonomy versus societal justice, human beneficence versus public health non-maleficence that arose during the pandemic due to prolonged, high acutity,= critical illness in the setting of a highly contageous respiratory virus, protective personal equipment shortages,m crisis standards of care to distribute scarce medical resources, and changes in interactions between treating clinicians, patients, and visitors. The lessons learned during the pandemic response will directly inform and impact the appraoch to future pandemic events. |
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spelling | pubmed-85307762021-10-22 Drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic Ben-Jacob, Talia K. Peterson, Lars-Kristofer N. J Crit Care Article This article discusses drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reviews the ethical dilemmas of individual autonomy versus societal justice, human beneficence versus public health non-maleficence that arose during the pandemic due to prolonged, high acutity,= critical illness in the setting of a highly contageous respiratory virus, protective personal equipment shortages,m crisis standards of care to distribute scarce medical resources, and changes in interactions between treating clinicians, patients, and visitors. The lessons learned during the pandemic response will directly inform and impact the appraoch to future pandemic events. Elsevier Inc. 2022-02 2021-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8530776/ /pubmed/34690037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2021.09.019 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Ben-Jacob, Talia K. Peterson, Lars-Kristofer N. Drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | drastic changes in the practice of end-of-life care during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530776/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34690037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2021.09.019 |
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