Nancy M. Albert, MSN, RN Manager, Heart Failure Disease-Management Programs, George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic
Mellar Davis, MD Medical director, Harry Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic
James Young, MD Section head, Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine, Department of Cardiology; and Medical Director, George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Cleveland Clinic
Address: Nancy Albert, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, F25, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, e-mail: albertn@ccf.org
ABSTRACTPatients with heart failure have special palliative care needs, but palliative measures for treating the symptoms of end-stage heart failure have been largely ignored. A formal disease-management program for heart failure should include palliative care.
