The shift in health care services from hospital-based to community- and home-based care, often provided by family members, exacts a significant emotional and physical toll on both patients and caregivers, an experience known as caregiver fatigue, caregiver strain, or caregiver burden. The Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) and the Short Form Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI-12) were used to assess caregiver burden in 10 patients with lower extremity amputation who presented with a caretaker over a 3-month period.

In this discussion, CLI Global Society Publications Committee members Fadi Saab, MD, Zola N’Dandu, MD, KJ Nagarsheth, MD, and Bret Wiechmann, MD discuss the role the Committee plays in challenging the status quo and changing how patients with CLI are treated.