‘It felt like a black hole, great uncertainty, but we have to take care for our patients’–Qualitative findings on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on specialist palliative home care

• Maximiliane Jansky ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maximiliane Jansky, Franziska Schade

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Maximiliane.jansky@med.uni-goettingen.de

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5292-2934

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• Franziska Schade ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maximiliane Jansky, Franziska Schade

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Nicola Rieder,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Danica Lohrmann,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Cordula Gebel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8305-9176

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• Lars Kloppenburg,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Ulrich Wedding,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Care, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Steffen T. Simon,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Claudia Bausewein,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany

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• Friedemann Nauck,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• on behalf of the PallPan Study Group

  ¶Membership of the PallPan Study Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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