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Heart Failure Management Program Versus Usual Care

NCT01822912 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 713

Last updated 2019-08-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Heart Failure (HF) patients discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities have higher rehospitalization rates and mortality than patients discharged to home.

HF disease management programs have been shown to reduce rehospitalizations in community settings, no national guidelines have been set forth for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF).

This study will investigate the the effect of a heart failure-disease management program on the outcome of all-cause hospital readmissions, emergency room admissions and mortality for 30 days post-SNF admission using 7 component heart failure disease management program.

Conditions

  • Cardiac Failure
  • Congestive Heart Failure

Interventions

OTHER

Heart Failure Disease Management Program

Subjects will be assessed 3 times a week while in SNF.

OTHER

Heart Failure Usual Care

Subjects will receive standard of care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rebecca Boxer, MD · University of Colorado, Denver

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2018-05-31
Completion
2019-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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