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ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2016

Complex Care Options for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure Approaching End of Life.

Sara E Wordingham, Colleen K McIlvennan, J Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Keith M Swetz

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Review in Current heart failure reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Reflecting on the advancements of HFrEF therapies over the last two decades and predicting what is yet to come.European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sara E WordinghamDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Palliative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 5777 East Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, USA. wordingham.sara@mayo.edu.
Colleen K McIlvennanSection of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora and Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium, Denver, CO, USA. colleen.mcilvennan@ucdenver.edu.
J Nicholas Dionne-OdomSchool of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. dionneod@uab.edu.
Keith M SwetzDepartment of Veterans Affairs, Birmingham/Atlanta Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center; Birmingham VA Medical Center; and Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. kswetz@uab.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Care for patients with advanced cardiac disease continues to evolve in a complex milieu of therapeutic options, advanced technological interventions, and efforts at improving patient-centered care and shared decision-making. Despite improvements in quality of life and survival with these interventions, optimal supportive care across the advanced illness trajectory remains diverse and heterogeneous. Herein, we outline challenges in prognostication, communication, and caregiving in advanced heart failure and review the unique needs of patients who experience frequent hospitalizations, require chronic home inotropic support, and who have implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and mechanical circulatory support in situ, to name a few.

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Terminal CareCaregiversCommunicationDecision MakingDefibrillators, ImplantableHeart-Assist DevicesHeart FailureHospice CareHumansPalliative CarePatient-Centered CarePrognosisAdvance care planningCaregiverEnd of lifeHeart failureInotropesMechanical circulatory supportPalliative careVentricular assist device

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PMID26829929

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