Hospice Use Among Patients with Heart Failure.

Card Fail Rev

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC, US.

Published: May 2019

Despite its many benefits, hospice care is underused for patients with heart failure. This paper discusses the factors contributing to this underuse and offers recommendations to optimise use for patients with heart failure and proposes metrics to optimise quality of hospice care for this patient group.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6545999PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.15420/cfr.2019.2.2DOI Listing

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