TY - JOUR AU - Straw, Sam AU - McGinlay, Melanie AU - Drozd, Michael AU - Slater, Thomas A. AU - Cowley, Alice AU - Kamalathasan, Stephe AU - Maxwell, Nicholas AU - Bird, Rory A. AU - Koshy, Aaron O. AU - Prica, Milos AU - Patel, Peysh A. AU - Relton, Samuel D. AU - Gierula, John AU - Cubbon, Richard M. AU - Kearney, Mark T. AU - Witte, Klaus K. PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/11 TI - Advanced care planning during the COVID-19 pandemic: ceiling of care decisions and their implications for observational data JO - BMC Palliative Care SP - 10 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Observational studies investigating risk factors in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have not considered the confounding effects of advanced care planning, such that a valid picture of risk for elderly, frail and multi-morbid patients is unknown. We aimed to report ceiling of care and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) decisions and their association with demographic and clinical characteristics as well as outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. SN - 1472-684X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-021-00711-8 DO - 10.1186/s12904-021-00711-8 ID - Straw2021 ER -