Population
English specialist palliative care (SPC) services (n=233 respondents out of 397 surveyed)
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Low HF volumes despite high SPC acceptance signal unmet need; leaves open optimal integration models for advanced HF.
While most English specialist palliative care services accept heart failure patients and believe they have a role in their care, the actual number of HF patients managed per service remains very low.
Gibbs et al. (2006) studied this question.
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