Ensuring Adequate Palliative and Hospice Care During COVID-19 Surges

This Viewpoint discusses barriers to quality end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic, including limited staffing, inadequate access to palliative medications, and restrictive visitation policies, and calls for proactive surge planning through organizational and policy reforms to facilitate symptom relief and comfort for patients dying in the pandemic.
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research