Symptom Relief Is Possible in Elderly Dying COVID-19 Patients: A National Register Study
Peter Strang, Jonas Bergström, Staffan Lundström
Abstract
The lower symptom prevalence in nursing homes may be explained by elderly frail residents dying already in the first phase of the COVID-19 disease, before acute respiratory distress syndrome develops.
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