Randomized Clinical Trial Shows Palliative Care in Heart Failure Improves Patient Outcomes

A big team from Duke lead by Joseph Rogers has a new Paper (reporting the results of a RCT of palliative care in late stage Congestive Heart Failure, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Patients who got palliative care had better quality of life, higher function and reduced anxiety and depression (with no survival difference, as hypothesized). Costs were not a primary endpoint, but will be analyzed in later work. Read more on Professor Donald Taylor's blog.