Medication Adherence Telemonitoring to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

The overall purpose of this project is to determine the feasibility of conducting a large scale randomized clinical trial that compares remote monitoring of adherence to loop diuretics using a wireless electronic pillcap with usual care among recently hospitalized heart failure patients. The long-term goal of this program of research is to determine the effect of the adherence telemonitoring intervention on medication adherence and hospital readmissions among recently hospitalized heart failure patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02378571

Run by

Columbia University

People needed

40

Starts

2014-12-01

Expected to finish

2015-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-01-23

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Hospitalized for heart failure
• Prescribed loop diuretic medication at discharge

You may not qualify if…

• Age less than 21 years
• New York Heart Association Class IV heart failure
• Terminal illness (<6 mo prognosis)
• Unable to self-administer medications due to mental illness or cognitive impairment
• Non-English/Spanish speaking
• Discharged to an institutional setting (e.g., nursing home)
• Cardiologist or primary care provider refusal
• Unavailable for follow-up
• No access to telephone
• Enrolled in another cardiac trial

Where it is running

• Columbia University Medical Center — New York, New York, United States

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