Status:
COMPLETED
Home Based Intervention Led by Nurse in Brazil
Lead Sponsor:
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Collaborating Sponsors:
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Conditions:
Heart Failure
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Home visits (HV) are one of the multidisciplinary approaches that has already shown to benefit the follow-up of Heart Failure (HF) patients. It is considered to be one of the most effective and humane...
Detailed Description
The epidemiological overview of cardiovascular diseases in which HF turns out to be the main cause of re-hospitalizations in the Unified Health System, which has not changed over the years, impairs th...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients of both sexes
- Age equal to or above 18 years
- Diagnosis of heart failure with systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction ≤ 45%)
- Hospitalized for heart failure decompensation and who agree to participate in the study by signing a Free Informed Consent Form.
Exclusion
- Patients presenting with communication barriers and suffering from degenerative neurological diseases.
- Patients who had Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) in the past 6 months before randomization
- Patients with renal/hepatic/pulmonary or systemic disease who may confuse the interpretation of findings or result in limited life expectancy
- Surgical or therapeutic treatment that may influence the follow-up
- Pregnancy
- Diagnosis of Heart Failure secondary to:
- sepsis
- myocarditis
- acute myocardial infarction
- peripartum cardiomyopathy and other acute cause
- No interest in receiving home visits
- Living more than 10 km away for the original hospital
- No possibility of telephone contact.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
January 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
200 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01213862
Start Date
August 1 2009
End Date
January 1 2013
Last Update
January 3 2014
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