GPs and nurses in primary care want to overcome barriers to discussion about end of life care with their heart failure patients, according to new research from Dr Markus Schichtel and team, but they need specific interventions to make this possible. The research explored the process of discussion, called advance care planning, or ACP, amongst […]
Effect of behaviour change techniques targeting clinicians to improve advance care planning in heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Summary by Dr Markus Schichtel, GP and post-doctoral researcher at the Palliative and End of Life Care Group at the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge. National and international guidelines advocate advance care planning (ACP) to facilitate better end-of-life care in heart failure. ACP is a voluntary process of discussion between patients, family clinicians and […]
Research Alert and video: Advance care planning in heart failure patients
This research alert is for those working in healthcare. It summarises the case for interventions to engage clinicians in advance care planning with heart failure patients and sets out the latest findings from our research into what interventions work. See the two minute video about this topic on our YouTube channel and download this page […]
How to help doctors discuss treatment options with heart failure patients
Doctors and other clinicians looking after patients with heart failure may avoid ‘Advance Care Planning’ conversations with the patient because they seem like an admission of failure, according to a new review of research looking at how these conversations are helped or hindered. Some clinicians feared that such conversations would ‘destroy hope’. Cardiologists in particular […]