Unmet Needs in Patients With Heart Failure: The Importance of Palliative Care in a Heart Failure Clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are increasing calls to establish heart failure (HF) clinics due to their effectiveness in the interdisciplinary management of people living with HF. However, although a recommendation exists for palliative care (PC) providers to be part of the interdisciplinary team, few of the established HF clinics include them in their teams. Therefore, in this qualitative study, we aimed to understand the unmet PC needs of patients with HF attending an already established HF clinic.

Methods

Secondary qualitative analysis of structured interviews undertaken within a larger study to validate the German version of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease-Heart Failure (NAT: PD-HF). The NAT: PD-HF is a tool that aims to assess unmet needs in patients with HF. The inte

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Jaramillo V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9195498 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature