Palliative care issues in heart transplant candidates

Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-13

  Muhandiramge, Demian ^a,b,c   Udeoji, Dioma U ^a,b,c   Biswas, Olivia S ^a,b,c   Bharadwaj, Parag ^a,b,c   Black, Leila Z ^a,b,c   Mulholland, Karen Angelus ^a,b,c   Moschella, Concetta ^a,b,c   Schwarz, Ernst R ^a,b,c  

^a DSMI Beverly Hills   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic heart failure; Heart transplant; Palliative care; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DYSPNEA; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DYSPNEA; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84927710589     PISSN: 17514258     EISSN: 17514266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SPC.0000000000000112     Document Type: Review

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