The purpose of this study is to evaluate how safe and effective a remote, virtual, cardiology program is that provides heart failure education to patients, monitors for worsening heart failure, and quickly adjusts heart failure medications, compared to usual care medication use and adjustment, in participants with decompensated heart failure that are recently hospitalized.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
180
Ventricle Health Program, which is a remote, virtual, cardiology program that provides heart failure education to patients, monitors for worsening heart failure, and rapidly titrates heart failure medical therapy.
Cardiovascular Institute of Northwest Florida
Panama City, Florida, United States
Northeast Georgia Medical Center
Gainesville, Georgia, United States
Duke Raleigh Hospital
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Premier Health
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Time to all-cause death
Time frame: Up to 120 days
Number of participants with worsening Heart Failure events
Time frame: Up to 120 days
Time to first worsening Heart Failure event
Time frame: Up to 120 days
Change in the number of classes of Heart Failure medications
Time frame: Up to 120 days
Number of participants with any intensification (initiation or dose titration) of evidence-based medical therapies for HF (heart failure)
Time frame: Baseline, 120 days
Cumulative number of intensifications of evidence-based medical therapies for HF (heart failure)
Time frame: Baseline, 120 days
Change in the number of classes of HF (heart failure) medications
by different HF classifications as defined by LVEF
Time frame: Baseline, 120 days
Composite of all-cause death and total worsening HF (heart failure) events defined by hospitalizations for acute decompensated HF and other urgent medical care for worsening HF
Time frame: 30 day, 60 day, 120 day
Number of participants with combined Emergency department visits and hospitalizations
Combined Emergency department visits and hospitalizations related to evidence-based medical therapies for HF including symptomatic hypotension, hyperkalemia, and angioedema.
Time frame: 30 day, 60 day, 120 day
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ProMedica Toledo Hospital
Toledo, Ohio, United States