Palliative care and hospital readmissions in patients with advanced heart failure: Insights from the PAL-HF trial

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC. Electronic address: robert.mentz@duke.edu.
• ² Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; Inova Heart & Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA.
• ³ Duke School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC.
• ⁴ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; Center for Health Services Research and Development in Primary Care, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
• ⁸ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC; Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
• ⁹ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC; Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC; Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC.
• ¹⁰ Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.