Criteria That Promote Timely Referral to Specialist Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Palliative Care, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Electronic address: ychang7@mdanderson.org.
• ² Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Campus, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia; Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia.
• ³ University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York.
• ⁵ Department of Palliative Care, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.