Professionals guidance about palliative medicine in chronic heart failure: a mixed-method study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Healthcare professionals (HCPs) experience difficulties in timely recognising and directing palliative care (PC) needs of their patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The aim of this study was to develop a comprehensive tool to enable HCPs in timely recognising and directing PC needs in CHF.

Methods

A four-stage mixed-method study was performed. Stage 1: identification of needs and questions of patients and families; stage 2: prioritisation and refinement of the needs and questions; stage 3a: testing and online feedback on V.1; stage 3b: selecting and refining care recommendations; stage 4: testing and review of V.2. Iterative reviews followed each step in the development process to ensure a wide range of stakeholder input. In total, 16 patients, 12 family m

SUBMITTER: Ament SMC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11671915 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature