This pilot study is to assess the feasibility, preliminary utility and acceptance of a digital technology-based system for heart failure management.
Heart failure continues to be a major public health problem. High-value, guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMT) for heart failure can reduce mortality and improve quality of life. However, large gaps in treatment with GDMT persist. While prior quality improvement efforts have focused on heart failure hospitalizations, there is a critical need to improve the quality-of-care post-discharge when the initiation and up-titration of GDMT is critical to optimizing outcomes. The main purpose of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility, preliminary utility and acceptance of a digital technology-based system for heart failure management.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
A combination of a provider-facing desktop and mobile application with a patient-facing mobile application that is integrated with a remote blood pressure cuff, heart rate monitor, and scale.
Stanford Hospital & Clinics
Stanford, California, United States
Patient Acceptability of the intervention
The proportion of patients who assess the DOT-HF intervention as an acceptable method of post-discharge heart failure management. This will be assessed during a semi-structured interview between individual participants and a trained interviewer.
Time frame: At Study completion (12-week follow-up visit)
Patients' Engagement score
A weighted proportion of requested actions completed by the patient. These actions include daily blood pressure measurements, daily weight assessment, daily health status assessment, biweekly KCCQ-12 assessment, and review of educational videos and health summary data. The minimum score is 0% and maximum score is 100%.
Time frame: At Study completion (12-week follow-up visit)
Clinicians' Response to Notification
The proportion of DOT-HF clinician notifications that lead to a clinician response over the 12-week follow-up period. Each of the clinician DOT-HF notifications are detailed below. These include notification of eligible therapy adjustment, worsening patient-reported health status, and weight gain. Eligible clinician actions include medication changes or new telephone, video, or in-person clinic encounters in response to the notification.
Time frame: At Study completion (12-week follow-up visit)
Proportion of days with weight assessed
The proportion of days weight is recorded by the participant using the ENGAGE-HF app. The minimum is 0% and maximum is 100%.
Time frame: At Study Completion (12-week follow-up visit)
Proportion of days with daily health status completed
The proportion of days daily health status is recorded by the participant using the ENGAGE-HF app. The minimum is 0% and maximum is 100%.
Time frame: At Study Completion (12-week follow-up visit)
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Proportion of Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire-12 assessments completed
The proportion of biweekly periods that the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire-12 health status is recorded by the participant using the ENGAGE-HF app. The minimum is 0% and maximum is 100%.
Time frame: At Study Completion (12-week follow-up visit)
Proportion of days with blood pressure (systolic) assessed
The proportion of days blood pressure (systolic) is recorded by the participant using the ENGAGE-HF app. The minimum is 0% and maximum is 100%.
Time frame: At Study Completion (12-week follow-up visit)
Proportion of days with medication adherence assessed
The proportion of days medication adherence is recorded by the participant using the ENGAGE-HF app. The minimum is 0% and maximum is 100%.
Time frame: At Study Completion (12-week follow-up visit)
Sustainability of DOT-HF technology for Patients
Sustainability will also be assessed via semi-structured interview questions to assess patient's and clinician's interest in continuing to use the DOT-HF intervention.
Time frame: At 6 week, At Study Completion (12-week follow-up visit)
Feasibility of DOT-HF technology for Patients
Feasibility will be assessed via semi-structured interview questions to assess barriers to use the DOT-HF intervention.
Time frame: At Study Completion (12 week follow up visit)
Utility of DOT-HF technology for Clinicians
Clinician perception of the utility of DOT-HF will be assessed based on clinician actions in response to DOT-HF notifications. We will assess each of the types of notifications aggregated in co-primary endpoint #3: * Notification of eligible therapy adjustment * Worsening patient-reported health status * Weight gain For each endpoint, we will separately evaluate the proportion of notifications that were followed by a medication adjustment and the proportion that were followed by a previously unplanned encounter between the clinician/clinic nurse and the patient.
Time frame: At study completion (12 week follow up visit)
Acceptability of DOT-HF technology for Clinicians
Clinician perception of the acceptability of DOT-HF will be assessed by clinician responses to a survey administered at the end of the study and semi-structured interview.
Time frame: At study completion (12 week follow up visit)
Generalizability of the DOT-HF Intervention
The generalizability of our study will be evaluated by comparing sociodemographic data between participants and eligible individuals who decline participation. Sociodemographics include age, gender, and race.
Time frame: At study completion (12 week follow up visit)
Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Score
A score based on the heart failure medications prescribed. The minimum score is 0% and maximum score is 100%.
Time frame: Baseline, At study completion (12 week follow-up visit)