Improving the care of patients dying of heart failure

Cleve Clin J Med. 2002 Apr;69(4):321-8. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.69.4.321.

Abstract

Patients with heart failure have special palliative care needs, but palliative measures for treating the symptoms of end-stage heart failure have been largely ignored. A formal disease-management program for heart failure should include palliative care.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Decision Making
  • Heart Failure / complications
  • Heart Failure / diagnosis
  • Heart Failure / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Palliative Care / methods*
  • Patient-Centered Care / methods*
  • Prognosis
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / drug therapy
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
  • Weight Gain