Possible associations between palliative care conferences and positive outcomes when performing palliative care for patients with end-stage heart failure: a nationwide cross-sectional questionnaire survey

Heart and Vessels
Yuma KurozumiYukihito Sato

Abstract

Palliative care for end-stage heart failure should be provided by a multidisciplinary team. However, the influence of each occupational category on patients receiving palliative care for end-stage heart failure remains unclear. Thus, this study investigated the relationships between palliative care conferences and positive outcomes of palliative care for end-stage heart failure patients. We sent questionnaires to all cardiology training hospitals authorized by the Japanese Circulation Society (n = 1004); of these, responses from the directors at 554 institutions were analyzed. We divided the responding institutions into two groups according to their implementation of palliative care conferences for patients with end-stage heart failure. The institutions that had held such conferences (n = 223) had a larger number of hospital beds, beds in the cardiovascular department, and patients admitted to the cardiovascular department, compared with institutions that had not held these conferences (n = 321). The usage rates of opioids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and sedatives were significantly higher in institutions that held these conferences. Multivariate analysis revealed that nutritionists and medical social workers had gr...Continue Reading

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