Background: Patients with heart failure have significant symptom burden, care needs, and
often a progressive course to end-stage disease. Palliative care referrals may be helpful but …

Heart failure (HF) is a chronic and progressive illness, which affects a growing number of
adults, and is associated with a high morbidity and mortality, as well as significant physical …

OBJECTIVE: In preparation for development of a palliative care intervention for patients with
heart failure (HF) and their caregivers, we aimed to characterize the HF population receiving …

Background: Heart failure (HF) and palliative care (PC) organizations recommend early PC
to improve the quality of life of patients living with HF. Objective: We conducted a two-phase …

Background Palliative care is an important element of holistic care but has received little
attention in cardiac disease patients. The purpose of the paper is (a) to investigate nurses' …

Background People with heart failure report various symptoms and show a trajectory of
periodic exacerbations and recoveries, where each exacerbation event may lead to death …

Background: Despite the high prevalence of heart failure in low-and middle-income
countries, evidence concerning patient-reported burden of disease in advanced heart failure …

Identifying patients who would benefit from palliative care is a major barrier to providing
palliative care. In acute care hospitals, physicians make palliative care referrals, but nurses …

This book is dedicated to the patients and their families who suffer with breathlessness
throughout the world. We would particularly like to pay tribute to those seen by Cambridge …

La definición más actualizada de falla cardiaca avanzada incluye síntomas refractarios al
tratamiento convencional, independiente de la fracción de eyección del ventrículo izquierdo …