Echocardiography in Nursing Home

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Heart Diseases, Heart Failure, Heart Valve Diseases

In brief

The study seeks to explore the implementation characteristics (acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility, adoption, fidelity, penetration, implementation cost and sustainability) of systematic echocardiography in nursing homes and its impact on rates of heart failure flare-up and unscheduled hospitalization at 12 months among included nursing homes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06445231

Run by

Nantes University Hospital

People needed

1050

Starts

2024-10-02

Expected to finish

2030-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-12-03

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Nursing homes residents with a life-expectancy estimated > 1 year, and able to participate to the study, giving an oral consent

You may not qualify if…

• no accessible to echocardiography
• closed unit (severe Alzheimer disease…)
• recent contagious disease such Covid (<15 days)
• no consent to participate
• no social security number

Where it is running

• Nantes University Hospital — Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France (enrolling)

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