Doctors support palliative care for heart failure
It has been suggested that patients with heart failure should have
access to palliative care, but there has been little research into how
it should be provided. Through a series of focus groups Hanratty and
colleagues (p 581) found that consultants and general practitioners supported the idea of non-specialist palliative care for
heart failure. Current organisation of services, the unpredictable
course of heart failure, and relations between different specialities
were identified as the main barriers to adopting a palliative care approach.
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