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Providing Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences from Spain

06/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 6/11/2020. This four-page document discusses how the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain has resulted in limited provision of palliative care, and palliative care physicians and nurses have often been deployed to deliver emergency care for people with COVID-19. It describes the experiences of The Clínica, a non-profit hospital with two venues, one in northern Spain and a second one in Madrid, which is specializing in providing cancer care. (PDF)