Palliative Care for Heart Failure Patients

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Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of palliative care consultation on quality of life and symptom management for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure with a randomized control trial at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01519479

Run by

Allina Health System

People needed

232

Starts

2012-04-01

Expected to finish

2013-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-03-18

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Abbott Northwestern Hospital inpatient adults with a diagnosis of acute heart failure

You may not qualify if…

• Are not an inpatient at Abbott Northwestern Hospital
• Are in the ICU
• On a ventilator
• Are pre-or post heart transplant
• Have a ventricular assist device (VAD)
• Determined to be actively dying
• Have cognitive impairments such that informed consent would not be possible,
• Are not proficient in the English language

Where it is running

• Abbott Northwestern Hospital — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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