Characteristics and Trends Among Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Referred to Palliative Care
4 May, 2019 | 13:56h | UTCInvited Commentary: Improving Primary and Specialist Palliative Care in Cardiovascular Disease (free)
Related Reviews: Palliative Care for Patients With Heart Failure – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Approach to advanced heart failure at the end of life – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND Palliative Care in Heart Failure: Rationale, Evidence, and Future Priorities – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free) AND How Medicine Has Changed the End of Life for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free) AND Dilemmas in end-stage heart failure – Journal of Geriatric Cardiology (free) AND It’s Time to Talk: Challenges in Providing Integrated Palliative Care in Advanced Congestive Heart Failure. A Narrative Review – Cardiology Reviews (free) AND Palliative Care Interventions for Patients with Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (free)
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JUST OUT! Our paper in @JAMANetworkOpen w/ the most comprehensive look at #heartdisease patients referred to #PalliativeCare. Sobering: 1/3rd of ❤️patients are *bedbound* at time of referral and over time FEWER % referred by cardiology. 1/n https://t.co/tyBDXpQynQ
— Haider Warraich (@haiderwarraich) May 3, 2019