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Comprehensive Heart Failure Disease Management Community Program

NCT00533013 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1360

Last updated 2019-04-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a nurse-led, comprehensive disease management program is effective in reducing recurrent hospital admissions and deaths in community dwelling patients with moderate to severe heart failure.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Usual Care

Management of heart failure is provided by primary practitioners and consultant cardiologists

OTHER

Disease Management and Tele-Monitoring

Management of heart failure is provided by cardiologists at regional heart failure clinics and by nurse practitioners at regional heart failure clinics and a designated call center. Decisions on treatment are guided by designated protocols and information derived for tele-monitoring of blood pressure, body weight and pulse rate.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sheba Medical Center

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Haim Silber, M.D. · Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel

  • Ofra Kalter-Leibovici, M.D. · Sheba Medical Center

  • Galit Kaufman, RN · Sheba Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-08-31
Primary Completion
2012-07-31
Completion
2012-07-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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