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ArticleJHLT open2025

Palliative care for the cardiothoracic transplant recipient.

Erika J Mejia, Christiane Kugler, Elizabeth Blume

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Article in JHLT open, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Erika J MejiaDivisions of Cardiology and Palliative Care, Anne & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Christiane KuglerInstitute of Nursing Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Elizabeth BlumeDepartment of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to management that is integral to the delivery of high-quality patient centered care for all cardiothoracic transplant recipients. Life as a heart or lung transplant patient is one filled with an array of physical and psychosocial experiences, periods of clinical acuity, as well as episodes of uncertainty. Structured support attending to physical and psychosocial needs as a means to improve the patient experience and support goal concordant care are palliative care practices that are central to the provision of care to the cardiothoracic transplant population.

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communicationend of lifeheart transplantlung transplantpalliative carepediatric

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PMID40687312
PMCPMC12274727

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