Cost and Shared Decision-Making for Heart Failure
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Chronic Heart Failure
In brief
This study is designed to understand the impact of providing patient-specific cost at the time of the clinical encounter on decision-making for heart failure medications. The researchers will provide patients with heart failure with patient-specific cost information for non-generic heart failure medications. This cost information will be populated onto a checklist of recommended HF medications so that patients and their clinicians will have this information available during their clinical encounter. Patients in the control arm will receive the same checklist but without the cost information.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04793880
- Run by
- Emory University
- People needed
- 247
- Starts
- 2021-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2023-11-15
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-12-15
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Diagnosis of HFrEF (ejection fraction < 40%)
- Outpatient clinical encounter with cardiologist (virtual or in-person)
You may not qualify if…
- Advanced HF therapy (LVAD or transplant or undergoing active workup or listing for these therapies; home inotrope usage)
- Patient currently in hospice care or with known life expectancy under 1 year
- Dialysis-dependence or glomerular filtration rate (GFR) < 30 (due to medication contraindications)
- Pregnancy (because many guideline-recommended drugs, including those with associated high costs, are not approved for use in pregnancy)
- Non-English speaking (because of the absence of non-English speaking research staff to communicate with non-English speaking patients and to qualitatively analyze/code audio-recorded data)
Where it is running
- UCHealth Heart and Vascular Center Clinics — Aurora, Colorado, United States
- Emory University Hospital Midtown — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Emory Clinic, Emory University Hospital — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Emory St. Joseph's Hospital — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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