The foremost and greatest barrier to end-stage heart failure treatment: the impact of caregiver shortage - Saito, Shunsuke; Yoshioka, Daisuke; Kawamura, Takuji; Kawamura, Ai; Misumi, Yusuke; Akazawa, Yasuhiro; Sera, Fusako; Kubota, Kaori; Yamauchi, Takashi; Sakata, Yasushi; Miyagawa, Shigeru (Journal of artificial organs, 2025)
Keywords: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Cardiac Surgery; Caregivers; Caregivers - supply & distribution; Congestive heart failure; Diabetes mellitus; Dialysis; Drinking behavior; Failure; Female; Health services; Heart failure; Heart Failure - therapy; Heart transplantation; Heart Transplantation - statistics & numerical data; Heart-Assist Devices; Hospitals; Humans; Japan; Male; Malignancy; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Nephrology; Original; Original Article; Patients; Retrospective Studies; Social conditions; Therapy; Japan; Left ventricular assist device; Home therapy; Heart transplantation; Caregiver