Why the study?
Do palliative care interventions improve quality of life and psychological wellbeing in patients with chronic heart failure and their caregivers?
Do palliative care interventions improve quality of life and psychological wellbeing in patients with chronic heart failure and their caregivers?
Palliative care interventions are beneficial for quality of life and psychological wellbeing in chronic heart failure patients and their caregivers, though specific intervention formats require further study.
Palliative care merits consideration in heart failure; heterogeneity leaves optimal formats open for further trials.
This review supports the role of palliative care interventions in patients with chronic heart failure and their caregivers across various outcomes, particularly quality of life and psychological wellbeing. Due to the highly heterogeneous nature of palliative care interventions, it is not possible to provide definitive recommendations as to what guise palliative care interventions should take to best support the complex care of this population. Considerable future research, particularly focusing on quality of care after death and the caregiver population, is warranted.
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