Promoting Palliative Care for People With Heart Failure

Summary

This project will develop and test a novel clinical decision support tool (CDS) that encourages timely referral to palliative care for people hospitalized with heart failure. This intervention will incorporate an existing, validated 1-year mortality risk model into a CDS to deliver prognostic information and evidence-based decision support at the point of care. Thus, this research may lead to improved care-concordant and goal-directed care for people with heart failure.

Detailed Description

Healthcare providers will encounter the tool during the routine care of their hospitalized patients. Patients randomized to the intervention arm will have providers who receive the tool and can complete one post-trial survey. High use providers will also have the opportunity to participate in a survey and 1 post-trial interview. Level 2 providers will participate in one interview.

Eligibility Criteria

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