VIrtual Care To Improve Outcomes and RecoverY From Heart Failure Hospitalization

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

The clinic visits (intervention) will continue for 90 days, which represents the follow-up period for the primary medication and health status outcomes. The co-primary clinical outcomes will be obtained at 180 days.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05724433

Run by

Population Health Research Institute

People needed

891

Starts

2023-01-23

Expected to finish

2026-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-08-07

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Adult patients ≥ 18 years old who:
• Are being discharged after hospitalization or urgent visit for HF as
• a primary diagnosis or
• significant complication (prolonging length of stay) of another diagnosis OR Have been referred for an initial consult at a cardiology clinic within 1 week of hospitalization or urgent visit for HF as a primary or secondary diagnosis, as described above.
• Have left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 50% within the preceding 3 months.
• Have NT-proBNP of > 900 pg/ml during hospital admission or within 7 days after discharge from the ED
• Have a mailing address for patient or caregiver
• Provide verbal consent

You may not qualify if…

• Died or left hospital before medically advised hospital discharge
• Unable to self-assess or communicate symptoms (e.g. clinically evident dementia)
• Unable to engage with digital health technology or follow up
• Severe valve disease
• Recipient of or on waiting list for LVAD or cardiac transplant
• Complex congenital heart disease, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, or amyloid cardiomyopathy
• Severe lung disease with symptoms on minimal exertion, forced expiratory volume during 1 second (FEV1) < 1 litre, severe pulmonary hypertension with RVSP > 60 mm Hg, or on home oxygen
• Severe kidney disease (persistent eGFR < 30 mL/min/1.73m2)
• Active malignancy
• Receiving palliative care or expected life expectancy < 6 months

Where it is running

• Military Hospital — Tunis, Tunisia (enrolling)
• Hamilton General Hospital — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (enrolling)
• Juravinski Hospital Cancer Centre — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (enrolling)
• St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton — Hamilton, Onatrio, Canada (enrolling)
• Unity Health Toronto — Toronto, Ontario, Canada (enrolling)
• Fattouma Bourguiba Hospital — Monastir, Tunisia (enrolling)
• Hedi Chaker Hospital — Sfax, Tunisia (enrolling)
• Sahloul Hospital — Sousse, Tunisia (enrolling)
• Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre — Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

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