Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · May 2013
Facilitating needs-based support and palliative care for people with chronic heart failure: preliminary evidence for the acceptability, inter-rater reliability, and validity of a needs assessment tool.
Understanding the types and extent of need is critical to informing needs-based care for people with chronic heart failure (CHF). ⋯ This study provides preliminary evidence for the NAT: PD-HF as a potential strategy for identifying and informing the management of physical and psychosocial issues experienced by people with CHF. Further work is needed to examine additional psychometrics, benefits relating to unnecessary symptom burden, futile treatments, and admissions to hospital.