Patients with end-stage heart failure who received palliative care from an interdisciplinary team, along with usual evidence-based care, significantly improved in functional, psychosocial, and spiritual well-being compared with a control group getting usual care alone, in a rare randomized trial in this setting. The study has limitations; it is a single-center experience led by a few specialists, but also, the center had already been using many of the palliative-care practices before the study, so to some extent they were part of usual care.

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