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A three-year collaboration between community-based heart failure nurses and specialist palliative care services provided a cost-effective, sustainable model of high-quality care for heart failure.
A collaborative model between heart failure nurses and palliative care services appears to be a sustainable and effective approach for managing advanced heart failure patients.
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May support HF-palliative nurse collaborations; leaves open randomized confirmation of cost-effectiveness and sustainability.
It is widely acknowledged that people with advanced heart failure have at least as great a need for supportive and palliative care as those with malignant disease. However, specialist palliative care services are seldom involved in their care in the UK. We describe a three-year collaboration between community-based heart failure nurse specialists and existing specialist palliative care services. In the model of care that has evolved, the heart failure nurses remain key workers throughout the illness. They run a regular support group for patients and carers in the setting of a hospice day therapy unit, referring patients for other palliative care involvement as necessary. Activity data and the results of patient interviews are presented. These suggest that the model is a cost effective, sustainable way of providing high quality care for people with heart failure.
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Daley et al. (2006) studied Advanced heart failure. Collaboration between community-based heart failure nurse specialists and specialist palliative care services was evaluated. A three-year collaboration between community-based heart failure nurses and specialist palliative care services provided a cost-effective, sustainable model of high-quality care for heart failure.
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