[Palliative care for patients with heart failure].

Purpose: Heart failure is a common disease and its progression to end-stage heart failure is responsible of high mortality. The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the access to integrated palliative care to the usual management, 6 months prior to their death, and especially during the last hospitalization.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective study was performed in patients who died of heart failure in 2009 in two hospitals.