Modelling services to meet the palliative care needs of chronic heart failure patients and their families: current practice in the UK.

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Modelling services to meet the palliative care needs of chronic heart failure patients and their families: current practice in the UK. Abstract Text:

Lucy Selman,Richard Harding,Teresa Beynon,Fiona Hodson,Caroline Hazeldine,Elaine Coady,Louise Gibbs,Irene J Higginson,

OBJECTIVE: To describe current provision of specialist palliative care for chronic heart failure (CHF) patients, and explore challenges, referral criteria and recommendations to inform service development. METHOD: Semi-structured qualitative telephone survey of key professionals involved in CHF palliative care in the UK. RESULTS: Twenty telephone interviews were conducted with staff from 17 services comprising three main types: hospital-based (n = 7), community-based (n = 6) and hospice-based (n = 4). The main recommendations made were to establish mechanisms for joint working between palliative care and cardiology; to ensure that stakeholders are involved from the outset of service planning; and to involve community heart failure nurses in service provision. Referral guidelines were collected from four services, covering diagnostic, symptomatological, psychosocial and team-related criteria. CONCLUSIONS: Information regarding existing services' challenges, recommendations and referral systems is essential when designing a new service, maximising feasibility and acceptability. This study design is of particular value when descriptions and evaluations of service models are lacking in the literature. The survey gives much-needed depth and detail to the types of services currently providing palliative care to CHF patients across the UK.

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L Selman,R Harding,T Beynon,F Hodson,C Hazeldine,E Coady,L Gibbs,IJ Higginson,

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Modelling services to meet the palliative care needs of chronic heart failure patients and their families: current practice in the UK. Journal Published:

PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov

Journal: Palliative medicine

VOLUME: 21

Page Numbers: 385-90

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ISSN: 0269-2163

DAY: 19

MONTH: Jul

YEAR: 2007

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AFFILIATION: Dept of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London School of Medicine, London. lucy.selman@kcl.ac.uk

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