view from the end: what the last year of life can teach us about palliative care on the adult congenital heart disease journey.

Autor: Steiner, Jill M, Kirkpatrick, James N
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Zdroj: European Heart Journal; 11/7/2022, Vol. 43 Issue 42, p4493-4495, 3p
Abstrakt: In contrast to its prevalence in cancer care, palliative care is much less integrated into cardiovascular medicine.[14] It is unknown how palliative care may improve ACHD care, neither is it known at what point in the disease trajectory specialist palliative care is best utilized. Only 4% of the patients who died of a cardiovascular cause saw a palliative care specialist in the last month of life, which should raise concern, as it strains credulity that patients with such high resource utilization did not have unmet palliative care needs. [Extracted from the article]
Databáze: Complementary Index