Effect of an Early Palliative Care Telehealth Intervention vs Usual Care on Patients With Heart Failure: The ENABLE CHF-PC Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

National guidelines recommend early palliative care for patients with advanced heart failure, which disproportionately affects rural and minority populations.

Objective

To determine the effect of an early palliative care telehealth intervention over 16 weeks on the quality of life, mood, global health, pain, and resource use of patients with advanced heart failure.

Design, setting, and participants

A single-blind, intervention vs usual care randomized clinical trial was conducted from October 1, 2015, to May 31, 2019, among 415 patients 50 years or older with New York Heart Association class III or IV heart failure or American College of Cardiology stage C or D heart failure at a large Southeastern US academic tertiary medical center and a Veterans Affairs

SUBMITTER: Bakitas MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385678 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature