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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Card Fail. 2016 Oct 28;23(2):197–200. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2016.10.013

Table 2. Conference Proceedings on Palliative Care in Heart Failure (2009–2013).

To determine the number of conference seminars or posters in which palliative care in heart failure was either a Main Topic or Significant Mention, the authors used a series of keywords to either search electronic copies of the final program books or query the websites of each of the cardiology conferences.

Total # Heart
Failure Titles

N		 Palliative Care
as Main Topic

N		 Palliative Care
as Significant
Mention
N (%)
American College of Cardiology Seminar 346 4 (1.2%) 8 (2.3%)
Poster 1223 1 (0.1%) 5 (0.4%)
American Heart Association Seminar 875 4 (0.5%) 13 (1.5%)
Poster 1252 3 (0.2%) 3 (0.2%)
Heart Failure Society of America Seminar 294 9 (3.1%) 8 (2.7%)
Poster 929 8 (0.9%) 5 (0.5%)
Heart Rhythm Society Seminar 295 4 (1.4%) 1 (0.3%)
Poster 416 5 (1.2%) 2 (0.5%)
Totals Seminar 1810 21 (1.2%) 30 (1.7%)
Poster 3820 17 (0.4%) 15 (0.4%)