Factors associated with early palliative care among patients with heart failure
04/20/24 at 02:05 AM
Factors associated with early palliative care among patients with heart failure
Palliative Medicine, by Caroline P Meehan, Emily White, Alexander CVitan, Lan Jiang, Wen-Chih Wu, Mitchell Wice, Jensy Stafford, James L Rudolph; 4/24
While more than 20% of HF patients in our cohort had PC well in advance of death, more than half died without PC. PC involvement seemed to be driven by comorbidities rather than HF. Effective collaboration with Cardiology is needed to identify patients who would benefit from earlier PC involvement.