Creating a Palliative Care Inpatient Response Plan for COVID19 – The UW Medicine Experience

The COVID-19 pandemic is stressing healthcare systems throughout the world. Significant numbers of patients are being admitted to the hospital with severe illness, often in the setting of advanced age and underlying co-morbidities. Therefore, palliative care is an important part of the response to this pandemic. The Seattle area and UW Medicine have been on the forefront of the pandemic in the US.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - March 30, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: James Fausto, Lianne Hirano, Daniel Lam, Amisha Mehta, Blair Mills, Darrell Owens, Elizabeth Perry, J. Randall Curtis Source Type: research