Caregivers' contributions to heart failure self-care: A systematic review

Conclusions and implications of key findings:
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.

Source: European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - January 13, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Buck, H. G., Harkness, K., Wion, R., Carroll, S. L., Cosman, T., Kaasalainen, S., Kryworuchko, J., McGillion, M., O'Keefe-McCarthy, S., Sherifali, D., Strachan, P. H., Arthur, H. M. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research