Primary Palliative Care of Adults with New Onset Heart Failure
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Valerie Joy Smith; Cheryl Westlake
- Source
- Journal of Cardiac Failure. 26:S124
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Palliative care
Quality of life (healthcare)
business.industry
Disease trajectory
Heart failure
Medicine
Distressing
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Intensive care medicine
medicine.disease
New onset
- Language
- ISSN
- 1071-9164
Introduction: Persons with heart failure (HF) suffer from distressing symptoms and quality of life (QOL) challenges that can be addressed by an individualized palliative care (PC) approach early and throughout the disease trajectory. However, of the 6.5 million Americans with HF