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Improving Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities

NCT00211874 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 406

Last updated 2015-10-12

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Summary

For congestive heart failure (CHF) patients with systolic dysfunction, a randomized controlled trial compared nurse-based disease management to address problems in patient and clinician management with usual care for effects on hospitalization and functioning among ethnically-diverse patients in ambulatory practices.

Conditions

  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
  • Systolic Dysfunction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nurse-management

bilingual nurses counseled patients on diet, medication adherence, and self-management of symptoms through an initial visit and regularly scheduled follow-up telephone calls and facilitated evidence-based changes to medications in discussions with patients' clinicians.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Jane Sisk, Ph.D. · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  • Paul Hebert, MD · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-09-30
Primary Completion
2002-09-30
Completion
2002-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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