Non-Concordance between Patient and Clinician Estimates of Prognosis in Advanced Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite efforts to enhance serious illness communication, patients with advanced heart failure (HF) lack prognostic understanding.

Objectives

To determine rate of concordance between HF patients' estimation of their prognosis and their physician's estimate of the patient's prognosis, and to compare patient characteristics associated with concordance.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis of a cluster randomized controlled trial with 24-month follow-up and analysis completed on 09/01/2020. Patients were enrolled in inpatient and outpatient settings between September 2011 to February 2016 and data collection continued until the last quarter of 2017.

Setting

Six teaching hospitals in the U.S.

Participants

Patients with advanced HF and implantable cardi

SUBMITTER: Gelfman LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8186811 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature