Palliative care for patients with acute decompensated heart failure: an underused service?

摘要

This was a retrospective analysis of data from the ADHERE (Acute Decompensated Heart failurE national REgistry) database. Patients included in the registry are aged 18 years or older and hospitalized in an academic, community, or tertiary facility in the US with a primary diagnosis of HR For the purposes of the registry, HF is defined as "new onset or decompensation of chronic HF, with symptoms severe enough to warrant hospitalization". Each patient record in the registry concludes with information on patient discharge, transfer, or in-hospital death; follow-up data are, therefore, not available.