Key result
Heart failure patients receive worse illness understanding and more limited palliative care access than cancer patients.
Why the study?
Patients with chronic heart failure or chronic lung disease have less understanding of their illness, fewer end-of-life care choices, and more limited access to supportive and palliative care than patients with cancer.
Patients with chronic heart failure and chronic lung disease face significant disparities in access to and understanding of palliative and end-of-life care compared to cancer patients.
Disparities in illness understanding and palliative access for HF/lung disease warrant clinician attention; leaves open whether targeted interventions close gaps versus cancer care.
#### Key Points Patients with chronic heart failure or chronic lung disease understand less about their illness, have fewer choices regarding end-of-life care and more limited access to supportive and palliative care than patients with cancer Most palliative care problems suffered by these
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Johnson et al. (2010) studied this question. Patients with chronic heart failure or lung disease have less illness understanding, fewer end-of-life choices, and more limited access to palliative care compared to patients with cancer.
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