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Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Heart Disease

NCT02302014 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2015-12-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients admitted as an unscheduled hospital admission with either a acute heart failure syndrome (ACF) or acute coronary syndrome (ACS) will be eligible if their 6-12 month mortality risk is estimated to be 20% or greater at the time of discharge. Mortality risk is estimated using GRACE (for ACS) or EFFECT (for AHF) scores. Patients are randomly allocated to receive a holistic care intervention based around the creation of a detailed Future (anticipatory) Care Plan which is agreed with the patient and their family and which is shared with the Family Doctor and Emergency Services including ambulance teams. Primary endpoint is quality of life assessed by questionnaire.

Conditions

  • Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • Congestive Cardiac Failure
  • Palliative Care

Interventions

OTHER

Palliative Care Intervention

Baseline interview with trial cardiologist and trial nurse lasting for up to 1 hour Creation of a Future Care Plan (FCP) document following this baseline interview Sharing of FCP document with primary care and unscheduled care organisations 6 week interview with trial nurse lasting for up to 1 hour to review FCP 12 week interview with trial nurse lasting for up to 1 hour to review FCP Continuous access to trial nurse by mobile telephone 9am - 5pm Monday-Friday for 12 weeks Trial nurse will - ensure FCP is appropriately shared with primary and secondary care, patient is registered on primary care palliative care register and will liaise with specialist PC services and the general practitioner as needed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Edinburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Martin A Denvir, MBChB · University of Edinburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2015-05-31
Completion
2015-05-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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