Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of palliative care interventions in people with chronic heart failure and their caregivers: a systematic review

Table 2 Outline of palliative care components provided in included studies (n = 18)

	Optimising Evidence-Based Therapy	Breaking Bad News	Advance Care Planning	Education and Counselling on Self-Management	Organising Multidisciplinary Services	Identifying End-stage Heart Failure	Re-Exploring Goals of Care	Optimising Symptom Management
Agren et al. (2012) [44]	✓		✓	✓			✓
Aiken et al. (2006) [35]	✓		✓	✓	✓			✓
Bekelman et al. (2015) [36]	✓			✓	✓			✓
Bekelman et al. (2018) [37]	✓				✓			✓
Brannstrom et al. (2014) [45]				✓	✓		✓	✓
Ekman et al. (1998) [46]				✓	✓
Hopp et al. (2016) [38]			✓				✓	✓
Liljeroos et al. (2015) [47]	✓		✓	✓			✓
Mentz et al. (2018) [39]			✓		✓		✓	✓
Ng et al. (2018) [49]			✓		✓	✓	✓	✓
O’Donnell et al. (2018) [40]		✓	✓			✓	✓
O’Riordan et al. (2019) [41]			✓					✓
Paes (2005) [52]		✓	✓			✓		✓
Piamjariyakul et al. (2015) [42]	✓		✓	✓				✓
Rogers et al. (2017) [43]			✓		✓		✓	✓
Sahlen et al. (2016) [48]				✓	✓		✓	✓
Wong et al. (2016) [50]			✓		✓	✓	✓	✓
Wong et al. (2018) [51]			✓		✓	✓	✓	✓

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