Hospice Use Among Patients with Heart Failure

Despite its many benefits, hospice care is underused for patients with heart failure. This paper discusses the factors contributing to this underuse and offers recommendations to optimise use for patients with heart failure and proposes metrics to optimise quality of hospice care for this patient gr...

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Autores principales: Cross, Sarah H, Kamal, Arif H, Taylor Jr, Donald H, Warraich, Haider J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Radcliffe Cardiology 2019
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Clinical Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31179019
http://dx.doi.org/10.15420/cfr.2019.2.2
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spelling pubmed-65459992019-06-07 Hospice Use Among Patients with Heart Failure Cross, Sarah H Kamal, Arif H Taylor Jr, Donald H Warraich, Haider J Card Fail Rev Clinical Practice Despite its many benefits, hospice care is underused for patients with heart failure. This paper discusses the factors contributing to this underuse and offers recommendations to optimise use for patients with heart failure and proposes metrics to optimise quality of hospice care for this patient group. Radcliffe Cardiology 2019-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6545999/ /pubmed/31179019 http://dx.doi.org/10.15420/cfr.2019.2.2 Text en Copyright © 2019, Radcliffe Cardiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode This work is open access under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 License which allows users to copy, redistribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is cited correctly.
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Hospice Use Among Patients with Heart Failure
title Hospice Use Among Patients with Heart Failure
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title_fullStr Hospice Use Among Patients with Heart Failure
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title_short Hospice Use Among Patients with Heart Failure
title_sort hospice use among patients with heart failure
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545999/
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