Doctors in China discouraged from citing COVID as a reason for patients dying amid outbreak
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Doctors in China received a hospital notice discouraging them from writing COVID-related illnesses as to why patients are dying. Instead, physicians should cite any underlying diseases.
If doctors believe that the death was caused solely by COVID-19 pneumonia, they must report to their superiors, who will arrange for two levels of "expert consultations" before a COVID death is confirmed, it said.
Six doctors at public hospitals across China told Reuters they had either received similar oral instructions discouraging them from attributing deaths to COVID or were aware that their hospitals had such policies.
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