Palliative Care Interventions for Patients with Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To systematically characterize interventions and effectiveness of palliative care for advanced heart failure (HF) patients.

Background

Patients with advanced heart failure experience a high burden of distressing symptoms and diminished quality of life. Palliative care expertise with symptom management and healthcare decision-making benefits HF patients.

Methods

A systematic PubMed search was conducted from inception to June 2016 for studies of palliative care interventions for HF patients. Studies of humans with a HF diagnosis who underwent a palliative care intervention were included. Data were extracted on study design, participant characteristics, intervention components, and in three groups of outcomes: patient-centered outcomes, quality-of-death outcome

SUBMITTER: Diop MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5177994 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature