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Designing a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Promote Timely Palliative Care in Heart Failure

2026-01-22 cardiovascular medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundPalliative care improves quality of life and reduces healthcare utilization for people with heart failure, yet referrals remain inconsistent and delayed. Clinical decision support (CDS) offers a promising strategy to facilitate timely palliative care, but no CDS tool currently exists to specifically support palliative care decision-making in this population. MethodsGuided by the User-Centered Framework for Implementation of Technology (UFIT), we conducted a qualitative descriptive stu...

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