Improving Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities

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Conditions studied: Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Systolic Dysfunction

In brief

For congestive heart failure (CHF) patients with systolic dysfunction, a randomized controlled trial compared nurse-based disease management to address problems in patient and clinician management with usual care for effects on hospitalization and functioning among ethnically-diverse patients in ambulatory practices.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00211874

Run by

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

People needed

406

Starts

2000-09-01

Expected to finish

2002-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-10-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• • adults >18 years,
• systolic dysfunction documented on a cardiac test (echocardiography, radionuclide ventriculography, myocardial stress sestamibi/thallium testing, or left-heart catheterization),
• English- or Spanish-speaking,
• community-dwelling at enrollment, and
• current patient in a general medicine, geriatrics, or cardiology clinic or office at a participating site.

You may not qualify if…

• • medical conditions that prevented a patient's interacting with the nurse, including blindness, deafness, and cognitive impairment;
• medical conditions that required individualized management that might differ from standard protocol, namely pregnancy, renal dialysis, and terminal illness; and
• procedures that corrected systolic dysfunction, such as heart transplantation.

Where it is running

• Mount Sinai School of Medicine — New York, New York, United States
• Metropolitan Hospital — New York, New York, United States
• North General Hospital — New York, New York, United States
• Harlem Hospital — New York, New York, United States

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