Key result
End-of-life HF care requires addressing complex prognosis, device management, communication, and symptom relief.
Why the study?
Many patients with heart failure do not receive optimal end-of-life care despite the disease's high mortality rate.
Persistent gaps in HF end-of-life care warrant clinician attention; leaves open optimal prognosis communication and device strategies.
Heart failure is a chronic condition with a high mortality rate. Despite that, many patients with this disease do not receive optimal end-of-life care. This review discusses some of the complex issues surrounding end-of-life care for heart failure patients, including the difficulty in predicting prognosis for any given patient and the increasing use of device therapy. The review also discusses issues with regard to patient-provider communication for heart failure patients, as well as symptom relief for those with advanced disease.
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Yager et al. (2005) conducted a review in Heart failure. End-of-life care was evaluated. End-of-life care for heart failure patients involves complex issues including prognosis prediction, device therapy, patient-provider communication, and symptom relief.
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