Components of home-based palliative and supportive care for adults with heart failure: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Palliative care and supportive care provided in the home for people with heart failure can improve quality of life, caregiver wellbeing and reduce healthcare costs. Identifying components of home-based palliative and supportive care in heart failure is useful to inform tailored care to people with heart failure.

Aim

To identify and describe components of home-based palliative and supportive care in adults with heart failure.

Design

A scoping review was undertaken in accordance with Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines. The protocol was registered prospectively with the Open Science Framework (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GHCME).

Data sources

Embase, PubMed, CINAHL and Cochrane databases were searched from inception in May 2023 and re-run in January

SUBMITTER: Perera M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11673332 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature