Journal article
Barriers to Goals of Care Discussions With Patients Who Have Advanced Heart Failure: Results of a Multicenter Survey of Hospital-Based Cardiology Clinicians
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Conversations about goals of care in hospital are important to patients who have advanced heart failure (HF).
METHODS: We conducted a multicenter survey of cardiology nurses, fellows, and cardiologists at 8 Canadian teaching hospitals. The primary outcome was the importance of barriers to goals-of-care discussions in hospital (1 = extremely unimportant; 7 = extremely important). We also elicited perspectives on roles of different …
Authors
You JJ; Aleksova N; Ducharme A; MacIver J; Mielniczuk L; Fowler RA; Demers C; Clarke B; Parent M-C; Toma M
Journal
Journal of Cardiac Failure, Vol. 23, No. 11, pp. 786–793
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2017
DOI
10.1016/j.cardfail.2017.06.003
ISSN
1071-9164