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Intervention by a Cardiologist and Geriatrician in Elderly Patients After Admission Due to Heart Failure.

NCT03555318 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2020-11-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Randomized clinical trial in which patients with a recent admission for heart failure in the cardiology department of the Hospital de Mar will be randomized to usual follow-up (cardiologist of the Heart Failure Unit) or follow-up by cardiologist and intervention by the geriatrician. This visit will be done at the same time. The main gial of this study is to evaluate whether the combined intervention of a cardiologist and a geriatrician reduces hospital all-cause rehospitalizations at 1 year.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Ambulatory visit

All patients will have an ambulatory visit with the cardiologist.

OTHER

Combined ambulatory visit

Both the geriatrician and cardiologist will evaluate the patient and cardiac treatment will be agreed on between both specialists.

OTHER

Geriatric intervention

After the geriatric assessment, measures to improve frailty will be started.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundacion MAPFRE

    collaborator OTHER

  • Parc de Salut Mar

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nuria Farre, MD · Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-14
Primary Completion
2020-11-05
Completion
2020-11-05

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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Diseases

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