Heart failure is epidemic in developed countries and is expanding rapidly worldwide. Roughly 5% of patients with heart failure have end-stage disease that is refractory to medical therapy (stage D ...

In this Empowering the Citizen Patient article, retired family physician Dr. Mindy Smith shares insights on how a palliative ...

Association of palliative care consultation with advance directive completion for patients admitted with an acute heart failure exacerbation. J Maine Medical Center. 2020;2 (2):15. doi:10.46804 ...

Next, Kieran covers a study examining the effect of palliative care on quality of life in patients with heart failure. We know how common heart failure is worldwide, and many are aware of the ...

Bakitas MA, Dionne-Odom N, Ejem DE, et al. Effect of an early palliative care telehealth intervention vs usual care on patients with heart failure: the ENABLE CHF-PC randomized clinical trial.

The researchers found that shorter time to receive palliative care consultation was associated with diagnoses of heart failure in 2016 to 2018 (compared with 2010 to 2015: adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], ...

Perhaps heart-failure patients tend to get less palliative care than cancer patients in part because there is often less certainty about their prognosis, according to Bekelman. "Heart failure has ...

Most of the usually elderly patients with heart failure therefore have short lives remaining of extremely poor quality, punctuated by frequent admissions to hospital. 5 6 They often suffer dyspnoea, ...

To identify evidence-based studies of palliative care in heart failure, we searched the Medline database for literature with the medical subject headings “heart failure” and “palliative care,” ...

The Burden of Advanced Heart Failure More than 5 million Americans have heart failure, with a yearly incidence estimated to be >500 000. 3 The number of deaths due to heart failure in 2004 was 284 365 ...