Internal medicine journal
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Internal medicine journal · Dec 2022
Multicenter StudyA multi-centre study on patients dying from COVID-19: Communication Between Clinicians, Patients, and their Families.
COVID-19 has led to challenges in providing effective and timely communication in healthcare. Services have been required to adapt and evolve as successful communication remains core to high-quality patient-centred care. ⋯ This study is one of the first and largest Australian reports on how communication occurs at the end of life for patients dying of COVID-19. Contact rates were relatively low between patients and families, compared with other cohorts dying from non-COVID-19 related causes. The impact of this difference on bereavement outcomes requires surveillance and attention.