Informal caregivers play a major role in heart failure self-care, highlighting the need for longitudinal research to examine their impact on patient outcomes.
Engage informal caregivers in HF self-care support now; extends evidence synthesis while leaving open their longitudinal impact on 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.
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