Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Oct 2021
Meta AnalysisAssociation of Palliative Care Intervention with Health Care Use, Symptom Burden and Advance Care Planning in Adults with Heart Failure and Other Noncancer Chronic Illness.
Palliative care (PC) improves outcomes in noncancer illness. We hypothesized the benefit is driven by studies of heart failure (HF) patients exclusively versus studies of other noncancer illnesses. ⋯ PC is particularly effective at reducing potentially unwanted hospital admissions for patients with HF compared to other noncancer illnesses. Our findings should further encourage efforts to increase PC access to HF patients.