January 2015 HPMJC: Palliative Care and heart failure in primary care

by Katherine Sleeman and Tara WhitburnOn Monday 26th January 2015 from 8-9pm London Time (3-4p New York/ET and Noon-1p California/PT) we will be holding the monthly twitter journal club for hospice and palliative medicine: #hpmjc. The aim of the journal club is to provide an informal multidisciplinary forum for discussion of latest research findings, and we hope you will join us!You can find some more information about the journal club #hpmjc here in a previous Pallimed post. The paper for discussion this month is ‘Palliative Care among Heart Failure Patients in Primary Care: A Comparison to Cancer Patients Using English Family Practice Data’. The paper was recently published in PLOS ONE, and is open access. Download it free here. We are pleased to announce that lead author of the paper, Dr Amy Gadoud (@agadoud), is joining us during the online discussion. This month’s paper has been chosen by Dr Tara Whitburn (@Tara_esw), a clinical fellow in palliative medicine at the Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London. Tara discusses why she has chosen this paper below: Why this paper? Over the past decade there has been increasing emphasis on providing care for people with non- malignant conditions such as heart failure. This paper uses data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) to investigate recognition of the need for palliative care in a traditionally underserved group. The authors use a national primary care database to in...
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