Needs of people dying of heart failure not being met

The needs of people with advanced cardiac failure are not being met. Murray and colleagues (p 929) show that these patients had a poorer understanding of their condition and prognosis and were less involved in decision making than patients with lung cancer. Cardiac patients also received less health, social, and palliative care. The authors argue that all patients with advanced serious illness should be afforded the same level of care as experienced by patients with cancer.


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Dying of lung cancer or cardiac failure: prospective qualitative interview study of patients and their carers in the community
Scott A Murray, Kirsty Boyd, Marilyn Kendall, Allison Worth, T Fred Benton, and Hans Clausen
BMJ 2002 325: 929. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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