Why the study?
Palliative care is primarily focused on cancer patients worldwide, and there is a need to implement palliative care specifically for severe heart disease including advanced heart failure.
This Danish national position statement provides practical guidance for implementing palliative care in advanced heart disease, emphasizing early symptom relief, multidisciplinary collaboration, and communication.
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Supports early palliative integration in advanced heart disease; extends consensus to multidisciplinary, intersectoral models.
Hansen et al. (2020) studied Advanced heart disease. Palliative care was evaluated. A national position paper from Denmark recommends integrating palliative care early in advanced heart disease to relieve suffering, alongside standard life-prolonging treatment, through multidisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration.
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