Multidisciplinary palliative care is effective in people with symptomatic heart failure: a systematic review and narrative synthesis
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This episode features\\xa0Professor Miriam Johnson (Hull York Medical School, UK).\\xa0People with heart failure have poor access to palliative care.\\xa0People with advanced heart failure have poorer\\xa0access to palliative care than people with cancer and the evidence base in support of heart failure palliative care is less developed.\\xa0This systematic review draws\\xa0together the current literature, both observational and experimental, investigating the use of palliative care in people with symptomatic heart failure. The\\xa0findings\\xa0support the use of multi-disciplinary palliative care in this patient group, as distinct from single components only, but trials do not identify\\xa0who\\xa0would benefit most\\xa0from specialist palliative referral. There are no sufficiently robust multi-centre evaluation phase trials to provide generalisable findings.
Full paper available from:\\xa0\\xa0https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269216319859148
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If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or accepted) Palliative Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara Nwosu:\\xa0anwosu@liverpool.ac.uk