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Improving the care of patients dying of heart failure
Nancy M Albert1, Mellar Davis, James Young
1George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. albertn@ccf.org
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|May 9, 2002
Abstract:
Patients with heart failure have special palliative care needs, but palliative measures for treating the symptoms of end-stage heart failure have been largely ignored. A formal disease-management program for heart failure should include palliative care.