Referral Criteria to Palliative Care for Patients With Heart Failure: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with heart failure have significant symptom burden, care needs, and often a progressive course to end-stage disease. Palliative care referrals may be helpful but it is currently unclear when patients should be referred and by whom. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to examine referral criteria for palliative care among patients with heart failure.

Methods

We searched Ovid, MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, and PubMed databases for articles in the English language from the inception of databases to January 17, 2019 related to palliative care referral in patients with heart failure. Two investigators independently reviewed each citation for inclusion and then extracted the referral criteria. Referral criteria were then categorized thematically.

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SUBMITTER: Chang YK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7494548 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature