Jul 19, 2019
This episode features Professor Miriam Johnson (Hull York
Medical School, UK). People with heart failure have poor
access to palliative care. People with advanced heart failure
have poorer access to palliative care than people with cancer
and the evidence base in support of heart failure palliative care
is less developed. This systematic review draws together
the current literature, both observational and experimental,
investigating the use of palliative care in people with symptomatic
heart failure. The findings support the use of
multi-disciplinary palliative care in this patient group, as
distinct from single components only, but trials do not
identify who would benefit most from specialist
palliative referral. There are no sufficiently robust multi-centre
evaluation phase trials to provide generalisable findings.
Full paper available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269216319859148
If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or
accepted) Palliative Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara
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