Patients with heart failure experience high symptom burden, highlighting the need for targeted nursing interventions to improve health-related quality of life.
Supports symptom-focused nursing in heart failure; hypothesis-generating without prospective intervention data.
Patients with heart failure experience a high level of symptoms and symptom burden. Nurses should target interventions to decrease frequency, severity, distress and overall symptom burden and improve HRQOL.
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