Heart Failure (HF) Outpatient Monitoring Evaluation (HOME) Study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if heart failure subjects whose treatment is assisted by home BNP measurements integrated into a home health management system will have better clinical outcomes than subjects whose treatment includes home health management without BNP or than subjects treated by standard care.

Conditions

• Heart Failure
• Systolic Heart Failure
• Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Interventions

OTHER

Interventions with heart failure medications

Therapeutic interventions with heart failure medications per decision of treating physician for subjects in all study arms but using the different information available in each study arm.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Alere San Diego

  lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

• Kenneth McDonald, Professor · St Vincent's Private Hospitale Ltd, Dublin, Ireland

• Henry Dargie, Professor · Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK

• Theresa McDonagh, Professor · Royal Brompton, London, UK

• John Atherton, Professor · Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Australia

• Henry Krum, Professor · Monash University

• Richard Thoughton, Professor · University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand

• Rob Doughty, Professor · University of Auckland, Victoria, New Zealand

• Faiez Zannad, Professor · Institut Lorrain du Coeur et des Vaisseaux, CHU Nancy, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

• Ulf Dahlstrom, Professor · Linkoping University Hospital, Sweden

• P Van der Meer, Doctor · University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands

• Franz Kleber, Professor · Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, Akademisches Lehrankenhaus der Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

75 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2011-04-30

Primary Completion

2013-03-31

Completion

2014-01-31

Countries

• Australia
• Ireland
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Sweden
• United Kingdom

Study Locations