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Provision of palliative care for chronic heart failure inpatients: how much do we need?

BACKGROUND: Clinical guidance recommends early CHF palliative care intervention, but the magnitude of need is unknown and evidence-based referral criteria absent. This study aimed to: 1) Measure point prevalence of inpatients appropriate for palliative care. 2) Identify patient characteristics assoc...

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Autores principales: Harding, Richard, Beynon, Teresa, Hodson, Fiona, Coady, Elaine, Kinirons, Mark, Selman, Lucy, Higginson, Irene
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19563627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-8-8