Healthcare workers' focus on curing advanced heart failure may prevent the use of palliative therapies that could alleviate physical and psychosocial distress.
May impede palliative integration in advanced HF; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective studies before any practice change.
The findings suggest that there may be an illogical but enduring ethos of 'cure' pervading health care worker's attitudes to advanced heart failure care. This mindset might be working to hinder the application of additional or alternative therapies, which might better palliate the physical and psychosocial distress of patients.
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