Improving care experiences for advanced heart failure patients and caregivers may require simple organizational changes to reduce fragmented care rather than complex clinical mechanisms.
May warrant attention to care coordination in advanced HF; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials before practice change.
Little progress is being made to improve care experiences for those with advanced HF. Even in the terminal stages, patients and caregivers are heavily and unnecessarily burdened by health care services that are poorly coordinated and offer fragmented care. There is evidence that these poor experiences could be improved to a large extent by simple organisational rather than complex clinical mechanisms.
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