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Although receiving palliative care services has been shown to improve the quality of life of people with CHF, few patients access this in a timely manner.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title><jats:p>Explore whether there were differences in either referral to specialist palliative care or provision of elements of palliative care to women and men with CHF during their terminal admission in Australia.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This is a retrospective review of medical records for all admissions resulting in death from chronic heart failure (July 2011 to December 2019).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The cohort (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> =\u2009439) was elderly (median age 83.7\u2009years, IQR\u2009=\u200977.6\u201388.7) and composed of 199 (45.1%) women. 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