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December 5, 2014Journal of Palliative Medicine262 citations

Inpatient Palliative Care for Patients with Acute Heart Failure: Outcomes from a Randomized Trial

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ASAbbey SidebottomAJAnn JorgensonHRHallie Richards

Structured PICO

Does an inpatient palliative care model improve symptom burden, QOL, and depressive symptoms in patients with acute heart failure?

P
Population
Patients with acute heart failure
I
Intervention
Inpatient palliative care (PC) model
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Outcome
Symptom burden, quality of life (QOL), and depressive symptomspatient reported

Inpatient palliative care for acute heart failure improves short-term symptom burden, quality of life, and depressive symptoms.

Abstract

An inpatient PC model for patients with acute HF is associated with short-term improvement in symptom burden, QOL, and depressive symptoms.

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Sidebottom et al. (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d56ee675589c71d767d787https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2014.0192
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