Improving Heart Failure Outcomes Rural

Completed

Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

This study will test if standardized care helps patients feel better, if it can be implemented in rural hospitals, and find out which healthcare processes and outcomes are most important to heart failure patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02395588

Run by

University of Maryland, Baltimore

People needed

26

Starts

2014-04-01

Expected to finish

2015-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-05-11

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of heart failure
• Age > 20
• Cognitively intact
• English speaking
• Plan for discharge to home, assisted living or intermediate care

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with planned discharge to sub-acute or nursing home facilities
• Patients enrolled in another research study to test interventions to improve heart failure knowledge, self-management or reduce readmission to the hospital within 30 days post discharge
• Patients that are cognitively impaired
• Patients that are transferred to another unit in the hospital, and will be discharged from that unit
• Patients who undergo or have a planned surgical intervention during their hospital stay

Where it is running

• Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital — Nassawadox, Virginia, United States
• Riverside Tappahannock Hospital — Tappahannock, Virginia, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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