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Towards integration of palliative care in patients with chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic literature review of European guidelines and pathways

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Palliative Care, February 2016
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Title
Towards integration of palliative care in patients with chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic literature review of European guidelines and pathways
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BMC Palliative Care, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12904-016-0089-4
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Naouma Siouta, Karen van Beek, Nancy Preston, Jeroen Hasselaar, Sean Hughes, Sheila Payne, Eduardo Garralda, Carlos Centeno, Marlieke van der Eerden, Marieke Groot, Farina Hodiamont, Lukas Radbruch, Csilla Busa, Agnes Csikos, Johan Menten

Abstract

Despite the positive impact of Palliative Care (PC) on the quality of life for patients and their relatives, the implementation of PC in non-cancer health-care delivery in the EU seems scarcely addressed. The aim of this study is to assess guidelines/pathways for integrated PC in patients with advanced Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Europe via a systematic literature review. Search results were screened by two reviewers. Eligible studies of adult patients with CHF or COPD published between 01/01/1995 and 31/12/2013 in Europe in 6 languages were included. Nine electronic databases were searched, 6 journals were hand-searched and citation tracking was also performed. For the analysis, a narrative synthesis was employed. The search strategy revealed 26,256 studies without duplicates. From these, 19 studies were included in the review; 17 guidelines and 2 pathways. 18 out of 19 focused on suffering reduction interventions, 13/19 on a holistic approach and 15/19 on discussions of illness prognosis and limitations. The involvement of a PC team was mentioned in 13/19 studies, the assessment of the patients' goals of care in 12/19 and the advance care planning in 11/19. Only 4/19 studies elaborated on aspects such as grief and bereavement care, 7/19 on treatment in the last hours of life and 8/19 on the continuation of goal adjustment. The results illustrate that there is a growing awareness for the importance of integrated PC in patients with advanced CHF or COPD. At the same time, however, they signal the need for the development of standardized strategies so that existing barriers are alleviated.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 259 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 51 20%
Researcher 25 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 9%
Student > Bachelor 22 8%
Other 20 8%
Other 58 22%
Unknown 61 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 91 35%
Nursing and Health Professions 44 17%
Psychology 17 7%
Unspecified 11 4%
Social Sciences 8 3%
Other 24 9%
Unknown 66 25%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 March 2018.
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#3,034,670
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Outputs from BMC Palliative Care
#345
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#51,809
of 413,749 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Palliative Care
#13
of 34 outputs
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