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| 1. | Develop and test psychological and psychosocial interventions, with particular attention to the potential role of palliative care specialist clinicians, advance care planning, and dyadic congruence in proxy decisions at end-of-life. |
| 2. | Develop comprehensive service models that assess and serve the unique needs of caregivers. |
| 3. | Involve heart failure caregivers, patients, clinicians, payers, and other key stakeholders into the intervention development and testing process. |
| 4. | Develop pragmatic interventions that can potentially integrate into existing healthcare systems and clinical workflows. |
| 5. | Tailor interventions to high risk subgroups and employ adaptive approaches to intervention content and format. |
| 6. | Explore testing of technologies in e- and m-Health that might support caregiving tasks. |
| 7. | Conduct randomized controlled trials that have sufficient sample sizes and meet quality standards. |
| 8. | Implement and refine techniques to boost recruitment and long-term retention of clinical trial participants, especially among minorities and other understudied groups. |
| 9. | Gain consensus on primary caregiver outcomes and tools to measure these outcomes. |
| 10. | Measure the impact of caregiver intervention on patient outcomes, including utilization and cost-effectiveness. |
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