Here are some useful articles and resources about heart failure. Note that they are technical and may not be easily understood unless you have some medical background.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• Adams KF, Zammad F, France N. Clinical definition and Epidemiology of advanced heart failure. Am Heart J.1998;135:S204-S215.
• Evangelista LS. Dracup K. Doering L. Westlake C. Fonarow GC. Hamilton M. Emotional well-being of heart failure patients and their caregivers. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 8(5):300-5, 2002 October.
• Rich MW, McSherry F, Williford WO Yusuf S. Effect of Age on Mortality , Hospitalizations and Response to Digoxin in Patients with Heart Failure: The DIG Study. J Amer Coll Cardiol. 2001:38 (3):806-813. 2002 Heart and stroke statistical update. Dallas:American Heart Association.2001.
• Goodlin SJ; Hauptman PJ; Arnold R, et al Palliative and Supportive Care in Advanced Heart Failure. J Cardiac Failure, 2004 10(3): 200-209.
• Hauptman P, Havranek E, Integrating Palliative Care Into Heart Failure Care, Arch Intern Med. 2005 Feb 28;165(4):374-8.
• Derfler MC, Jacob MC, Wolf RE, Hauptman PJ Death from Congestive Heart Failure: Experience of a Disease Management Program. J Cardiac Failure 2003 9(5)S1: S95
• Hershberger RE, Nauman D, Walker TL, et al. Care Processes and Clinical Outcomes of Continuous Outpatient Support with Inotropes (COSI) in Patients with Refractory Endstage Heart Failure .J Cardiac Failure, 9 (3): 180-187.
• Nohria A, Lewis E, Stevenson LW. Medical Management of Advanced Heart Failure. JAMA 2002;287 (5):628-640.
• Hunt SA, Abraham WT, Chin MH, et al. ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines.Circulation, 2005;112: e154 – e235.also available at http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/reprint/46/6/e1
Books
• Supportive Care in Heart Failure. Beattie JM and Goodlin SJ editors, Oxford University Press, 2008

Recent Presentations and Lectures relating to the project work

• Goodlin SJ& Tucker R. Hospice Management of Heart Failure Patients, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine February 10,2006
• Tucker R, Rayburn B, Goodlin SJ, Castle J. Professionals Perspectives on Heart Failure Management , American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, January 20, 2005.
• Goodlin SJ, Kutner J. Dilemmas in the Provision of Hospice Care for Heart Failure Patients. 15th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill. Montreal Canada, Sept 24, 2004
• Hauptman PJ, Goodlin SJ, Costanzo MR, Lopatin M. The Sickest of the Sick in the ADHERE Registry: Characteristics of Patients Hospitalize with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Who are Referred for Hospice Care. Heart Failure Society of America Sept 13, 2004.

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