Informal caregivers play a major role in heart failure self-care, highlighting the need for longitudinal research to examine their impact on patient outcomes.
To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review to examine CGs' contributions in depth. Informal caregivers play a major role in HF self-care. Longitudinal research is needed to examine the impact of CGs' contributions on patient self-care outcomes.
Buck et al. (Mon,) studied this question.