ArticleBMJ open2014
Future Care Planning for patients approaching end-of-life with advanced heart disease: an interview study with patients, carers and healthcare professionals exploring the content, rationale and design of a randomised clinical trial.
Article in BMJ open, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02302014 (Randomised Trial of Early Versus Delayed Future Care Planning for Patients and Families Living With Advanced Heart Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers.
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Randomised Trial of Early Versus Delayed Future Care Planning for Patients and Families Living With Advanced Heart Disease
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Phase 2 Randomised Controlled Trial and Feasibility Study of Future Care Planning in Patients with Advanced Heart Disease.Scientific reports · 2016Trial
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- End-of-life situations in cardiology: a qualitative study of physicians' and nurses' experience in a large university hospital.BMC palliative care · 2018Article
- Palliative and end-of-life care research in Scotland 2006-2015: a systematic scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2018Article
- Transition to palliative care when transcatheter aortic valve implantation is not an option: opportunities and recommendations.Current opinion in supportive and palliative care · 2016Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore the optimal content and design of a clinical trial of an end-of-life intervention for advanced heart disease with patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
designQualitative interview and focus group study.
settingCommunity and hospital-based focus groups and interviews.
participantsStable community-dwelling patients, informal carers (PC, n=15) and primary and secondary care based healthcare professionals (HCP, n=11).
resultsPC highlighted fragmentation of services and difficulty in accessing specialist care as key barriers to good care. They felt that time for discussion with HCP was inadequate within current National Health Service (NHS) healthcare systems. HCP highlighted uncertainty of prognosis, explaining mortality risk to patients and switching from curative to palliative approaches as key challenges. Patient selection, nature of the intervention and relevance of trial outcomes were identified by HCP as key challenges in the design of a clinical trial.
conclusionsPC and HCP expressed a number of concerns relevant to the nature and content of an end-of-life intervention for patients with advanced heart disease. The findings of this study are being used to support a phase II randomised clinical trial of Future Care Planning in advanced heart disease.
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