Palliative care in medical outliers with heart failure
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20161912Keywords:
Palliative care, Heart failureAbstract
Medical outliers are the patients who present to medical practices without health insurance or with serious co-morbidities needing prolonged hospital stay. Palliative care is part of standard guidelines for management of heart failure. But in medical outliers suffering from heart failure, palliative care should begin more early than it is recommended in standard guidelines because of financial reasons. It is suggested that guidelines be framed also for medical outliers with heart failure. It will be useful for patients of heart failure in resource-poor countries too.
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