“The message hurts, but it would be worse if nothing was said” – Communicating severe illness and the imminence of death to patients with end stage heart failure and their families – A longitudinal interview study

• Annika Pohl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Physician in Family Medicine and Palliative Medicine, LAH Norrköping, Vrinnevi Hospital, Norrköping, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5605-125X

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• Maria Liljeroos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Liljeroos

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Centre for Clinical Research Sörmland, Uppsala University, Eskilstuna, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7957-8600

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• Tiny Jaarsma

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tiny.jaarsma@liu.se

  Affiliation Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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