SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

Bereavement outcomes in family members of those who died in acute care hospitals before and during the first wave of COVID-19: A cohort study

Aug 23, 2022

This episode features Dr James Downar (University of Ottawa, Canada).

Early studies in the COVID-19 pandemic have suggested a high prevalence of severe grief symptoms, although most have used convenience or survey sampling methods which may bias the results, and most have assessed symptoms before pathological grief...

Health care professionals’ perceptions of factors influencing the process of identifying patients for serious illness conversations: A qualitative study

Aug 23, 2022

This episode features Dr Sofia Morberg Jämterud (Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden) and Anna Sandgren (Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden).

Serious illness conversations promote patients’ possibility of receiving care that is in accordance with their wishes and priorities. Identifying patients for serious...