Key result
Inequitable and delayed palliative care in HF limits advance care planning and symptom management.
Why the study?
Access to specialist palliative care services for patients with heart failure in the UK is inequitable, with many patients receiving late or no referral at end of life.
Highlights the inequitable access to palliative care for heart failure patients in the UK and advocates for service development to improve advance care planning and symptom management.
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Alerts clinicians to palliative care inequities in heart failure; leaves open effective strategies to improve referral timing.
Louise Charnock (2014) conducted a review in Heart failure. Palliative care and end of life care services was evaluated. Palliative care and end of life care services for patients with heart failure are inequitable, with late or no referrals resulting in lost opportunities for advance care planning and symptom management.
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