Observational studyAmerican heart journal2015
Unique challenges of hospice for patients with heart failure: A qualitative study of hospice clinicians.
Observational study in American heart journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Factors Associated With Mortality and Hospice Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Heart Failure Who Received Home Health Services.Journal of cardiac failure · 2024Article
- Exploring Health Care Providers' Experiences of Providing Collaborative Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure At Home: A Qualitative Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Article
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- Patient, Caregiver, and Clinician Perspectives on Expectations for Home Healthcare after Discharge: A Qualitative Case Study.Journal of hospital medicine · 2019Article
- Hospice in heart failure: why, when, and what then?Heart failure reviews · 2017Review
- Designing and Testing an End-of-Life Discussion Intervention for African American Patients With Heart Failure and Their Families.Journal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association · 2016Article
- Complex Care Options for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure Approaching End of Life.Current heart failure reports · 2016Review
- Trends and Changes in Intensive Care Use for Patients With Heart Failure in the Last Month of Life.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingObservational
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Abstract
backgroundPatients with heart failure have end-of-life care needs that may benefit from hospice care. The goal of this descriptive study was to understand hospice clinicians' perspectives on the unique aspects of caring for patients with heart failure to inform approaches to improving end-of-life care.
methodsThis qualitative study explored experiences, observations, and perspectives of hospice clinicians regarding hospice care for patients with heart failure. Thirteen hospice clinicians from a variety of professional disciplines and clinical roles, diverse geographic regions, and varying lengths of time working in hospice participated in semistructured interviews. Through team-based, iterative qualitative analysis, we identified 3 major themes.
resultsHospice clinicians identified 3 themes regarding care for patients with heart failure. First, care for patients with heart failure involves clinical complexity and a tailored approach to cardiac medications and advanced cardiac technologies. Second, hospice clinicians describe the difficulty patients with heart failure have in trusting hospice care due to patient optimism, prognostic uncertainty, and reliance on prehospice health care providers. Third, hospice clinicians described opportunities to improve heart failure-specific hospice care, highlighting the desire for collaboration with referring cardiologists.
conclusionsFrom a hospice clinician perspective, caring for patients with heart failure is unique compared with other hospice populations. This study suggests potential opportunities for hospice clinicians and referring providers who seek to collaborate to improve care for patients with heart failure during the transition to hospice care.
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