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Highlights the need for specific models of care focusing on quality of life, symptom control, and psychosocial support for patients with advanced heart failure and their carers.
Patients with advanced heart failure may benefit from specific models of care with strategic planning across primary and secondary care, and involvement of health and social care services and specialist palliative care providers. Models of care, which focus on quality of life, symptom control, and psychosocial support for patients and their families while continuing active treatment, should be developed.
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