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Multidisciplinary palliative care is effective in people with symptomatic heart failure: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Professor Miriam Johnson (Hull York Medical School, UK). People with heart failure have poor access to palliative care. People with advanced heart failure have poorer access to palliative care than people with cancer and the evidence base in support of heart failure palliative care is less developed. This systematic review draws together the current literature, both observational and experimental, investigating the use of palliative care in people with symptomatic heart fai