Comorbidities and the decision to undergo or forego destination therapy left ventricular assist device implantation: An analysis from the Trial of a Shared Decision Support Intervention for Patients and their Caregivers Offered Destination Therapy for End-Stage Heart Failure (DECIDE-LVAD) study - Warraich, Haider J.; Allen, Larry A.; Blue, Laura J.; Chaussee, Erin L.; Thompson, Jocelyn S.; McIlvennan, Colleen K.; Flint, Kelsey M.; Matlock, Daniel D.; Patel, Chetan B. (The American heart journal, 2019)
Keywords: Adaptation, Psychological; Age Factors; Aged; Body mass; Body Mass Index; Body size; Caregivers; Comorbidity; Conflict, Psychological; Congestive heart failure; Contraindications, Procedure; Decision analysis; Decision making; Decision Making, Shared; Emotions; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Health Surveys; Heart failure; Heart Failure - epidemiology; Heart Failure - psychology; Heart Failure - therapy; Heart-Assist Devices - psychology; Heart-Assist Devices - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Hypertension; Hypertension, Pulmonary - epidemiology; Hypertension, Pulmonary - psychology; Illnesses; Implantation; Kidney diseases; Male; Mental depression; Middle Aged; Mortality; Patients; Peace; Prosthesis Implantation - psychology; Pulmonary hypertension; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Recording; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - epidemiology; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - psychology; Sensitivity analysis; Stress; Stress, Psychological; Therapy; Time Factors; Transplants & implants; Variance analysis; Ventricle; Ventricular assist devices; Visual Analog Scale