Patient safety and hospital visiting at the end of life during COVID-19 restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand: a qualitative study
Conclusion
Visitor rights and visitor policy at the end of life require greater protection during a pandemic. Transparent, coherent, publicly available evidence-based guidelines that key stakeholders, including patients, families and ethicists, are included in producing, are urgently required. We want to avert a legacy of disenfranchised grief in future pandemics.
Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - Category: General Medicine Authors: Collier, A., Balmer, D., Gilder, E., Parke, R. Tags: Editor's choice, COVID-19 Original research Source Type: research
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