COVID-19 pandemic: palliative care for elderly and frail patients at home and in residential and nursing homes

Roland Kunz; Markus Minder

doi:10.4414/smw.2020.20235

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Vol. 150 No. 1314 (2020)

COVID-19 pandemic: palliative care for elderly and frail patients at home and in residential and nursing homes

Roland Kunz
Markus Minder

Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20235
Published: 24.03.2020

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Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) and Swiss Society for Intensive Care Medicine (SGI). COVID-19 pandemic: triage for intensive-care treatment under resource scarcity. Guidance on the application of Section 9.3 of the SAMS Guidelines «Intensive-care interventions». 2020. sams.ch/en/coronavirus
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COVID-19 pandemic: palliative care for elderly and frail patients at home and in residential and nursing homes. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2020 Mar. 24 [cited 2025 Oct. 21];150(1314):w20235. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/2754

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[1] Istituto Superiore di Sanità Caratteristiche dei pazienti deceduti positivi a COVID-19 in Italia. www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-COVID-2019_20_marzo_eng.pdf

[2] Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) and Swiss Society for Intensive Care Medicine (SGI). COVID-19 pandemic: triage for intensive-care treatment under resource scarcity. Guidance on the application of Section 9.3 of the SAMS Guidelines «Intensive-care interventions». 2020. sams.ch/en/coronavirus

[3] Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS). Medical-ethical guidelines: Palliative Care. 2006, updated 2013. p. 9. www.assm.ch/dam/jcr:0676cb80-e902-4634-ae54-91f2bfc679c6/guidelines_sams_palliative_care_2012.pdf

[4] palliative ch. Die Begleitung Sterbender. Unterstützung für Angehörige und freiwillige Helferinnen und Helfer. 2019. https://www.palliative.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/palliative/publikum/4_Angebote/Broschuere_Die_Begleitung_Sterbender_de_RZ_web.pdf