The key role of palliative care in response to the COVID-19 tsunami of suffering

Affiliations

¹ Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
² Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA; Leonard M Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, AC, Mexico City, Mexico; Tómatelo a Pecho, AC, Mexico City, Mexico. Electronic address: fknaul@miami.edu.
³ International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ International Narcotics Control Board, Vienna, Austria.
⁵ Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA; Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Lukas Radbruch et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 May 9;395(10235):1467-1469.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30964-8. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

¹ Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
² Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA; Leonard M Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, AC, Mexico City, Mexico; Tómatelo a Pecho, AC, Mexico City, Mexico. Electronic address: fknaul@miami.edu.
³ International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, TX, USA.
⁴ International Narcotics Control Board, Vienna, Austria.
⁵ Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA; Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

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