Determining When Patients Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure Can Be Safely Sent Home (The DECIDE Study)

Completed

Conditions studied: Acute Heart Failure

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine if certain findings (blood tests, symptom improvement, etc.) after acute heart failure treatment can identify a group of patients who are safe for early hospital discharge.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00911703

Run by

Vanderbilt University

People needed

835

Starts

2008-08-01

Expected to finish

2015-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-04-29

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Fulfill the modified Framingham criteria
• Have baseline data available within 1 hour of initial ED therapy
• Have previously documented systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction less than 50%) by echocardiogram
• Willing and able to give informed consent
• The exclusion criteria are:
• Patients less than 18 years of age.

Where it is running

• University of Cincinnati — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Vanderbilt University — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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