Digital health innovation to integrate palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic

The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has raised difficult questions about how we will allocate hospital resources as the volume of severely ill patients threatens to exceed conventional capacity [1,2]. As emergency physicians, we are skilled at performing intubations and other critical life-saving procedures when patients arrive to us in extremis. However, palliative care is not as readily available in most emergency departments [3,4].

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - August 18, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Lucinda Lai, Rintaro Sato, Kei Ouchi, Adam B. Landman, Haipeng Mark Zhang Source Type: research