COVID-19 Hospital Wards
Intensive care units were excluded because higher-level care conditions differed from general wards. The challenges resembled those reported across healthcare settings during COVID-19, suggesting relevance beyond general wards. The pandemi…
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Intensive care units were excluded because higher-level care conditions differed from general wards. The challenges resembled those reported across healthcare settings during COVID-19, suggesting relevance beyond general wards. The pandemic ward context was experienced as chaotic, unfamiliar, and rapidly changing. Visitation restrictions caused isolation and left some patients to die alone. General wards faced ethical problems including suffering, safety, autonomy, dignity, prioritisation, and gaps in medical guidance. The setting was general hospital wards in two Swedish healthcare regions.