Discussing Goals of Care in a Pandemic: Precedent for an Unprecedented Situation
Author(s) -
Ariane Lewis
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
american journal of hospice and palliative medicine®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.803
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1938-2715
pISSN - 1049-9091
DOI - 10.1177/1049909120941881
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , medicine , end of life care , nursing , public relations , palliative care , political science , disease , virology , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated the need for frequent end-of-life discussions. The circumstances surrounding these conversations are quite atypical. Here, I describe one such goals-of-care discussion during the pandemic and how I relied on the precedent of prior goals-of-care discussions to guide me through an unprecedented situation.
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