Advance Care Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine: JABFM

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Melissa A. Bender¹  Kuang-Ning Huang¹  Jaqueline Raetz¹ 

[1] From the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine.

关键词: Advance Care Planning;    COVID-19;    Critical Illness;    Delivery of Health Care;    Health Resources;    Organizational Policy;    Pandemics;    Patient Preference;    Telemedicine;   

DOI  :  10.3122/jabfm.2021.S1.200233

学科分类：过敏症与临床免疫学

来源: The American Board of Family Medicine

【 摘 要 】

Advance care planning (ACP) is especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously identified barriers to ACP include lack of time during patient visits, billing, clinician and patient discomfort and lack of resources, and difficulties with documenting and accessing ACP documents. Here we describe new challenges and new opportunities for ACP that have arisen from the COVID-19 pandemic, both due to the complexities of the illness and expedited changes in some of the stagnancies in the health care system. The shared risk for COVID-19 that all people face brings urgency to institutional policy changes to ACP form completion. However, research should assess acceptability and effectiveness of these strategies.

【 授权许可】

CC BY