Health E Heart Study (South Texas Veterans Health Care System Heart Failure Disease Management Program/Study)
Completed · Phase 4
Conditions studied: Heart Failure, Congestive
In brief
The primary objective of this telephonic heart failure specific patient education study is to assess the incremental clinical, psycho-social, and functional lifestyle benefits of the Health E Heart Study (South Texas Veterans Health Care System Heart Failure Disease Management Program/Study) when added to standard care among veteran beneficiaries with a heart failure diagnosis. A secondary objective is to assess the impact of the Health E Heart Study on total system utilization costs.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00141856
- Run by
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- People needed
- 420
- Starts
- 2005-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2008-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2008-06-23
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Inclusion criteria are designed to enroll a population of VA patients with moderate-severe heart failure who are expected to be reasonably representative of and generalizable to potential candidates for the Health E Heart Disease Management Program intervention. To be eligible for the study, veteran beneficiaries must:
- Be 18 years of age
- Have a diagnosis of heart failure
- Have received care in urgent care or have been hospitalized, or have more than 12 outpatient visits in the last twelve months.
- Speak either English or Spanish.
You may not qualify if…
- Exclusion criteria are designed to exclude persons who are unable to participate in the intervention, whose mortality or health care utilization are driven by co-morbid conditions, or who are enrolled in other research.
- End-stage renal disease on chronic dialysis
- Prior heart transplant
- End-stage or terminal illness in addition to heart failure, such as metastatic malignancy or AIDS with anticipated life expectancy less than 6 months.
- Residence in a nursing home
- Currently participating in another research or care management program.
- No access to a telephone
- Severe dementia
Where it is running
- VA South Texas Health Care System — San Antonio, Texas, United States
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