Validity and reliability of the palliative care needs assessment tool in Japanese patients with heart failure

Published on 07/08/2024

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Daishiro Tatsuta¹, Takuma Sato¹, Toshiyuki Nagai ¹, Jiro Koya¹, Kotaro Nishino¹, Seiichiro Naito¹, Yoshifumi Mizuguchi¹, Taro Temma¹, Kiwamu Kamiya¹, Hisashi Narita², Kenkichi Tsuruga³, Toshihisa Anzai¹

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine Hokkaido University Sapporo Japan
² Department of Psychiatry Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine Sapporo Japan
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine Sapporo Japan

Abstract

Aims Although patients with heart failure (HF) frequently experience considerable symptom burden and require significant care, most HF patients do not receive timely intervention due to the absence of a standardized method for identifying those in need of palliative care. The Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease‐Heart Failure (NAT: PD‐HF) assesses the palliative care needs of patients with HF. However, its validity and reliability have yet to be fully...

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