Palliative Care Training Gaps Remain in Chronic Disease Management Post-COVID-19

Abstract

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic added to demand and diversification in specialist palliative care, including unprecedented need to deliver supportive respiratory therapies. Objective: To understand training needs and ongoing models of care, including delivery of chronic disease management and supportive respiratory therapies, post-pandemic for palliative care clinicians. Methods: Mixed-methods study of specialist palliative care physicians and nurses, recruited through Australian palliative care organizations and snowballing sampling between November 2022 and March 2023. Online survey captured training required and acquired in chronic disease management, respiratory therapies, and ongoing bar..