Status:
COMPLETED
Discharge Educational Strategies for Reduction of Vascular Events
Lead Sponsor:
NYU Langone Health
Collaborating Sponsors:
Columbia University
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Conditions:
Intracerebral Infarcts
Ischemic Stroke
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
DESERVE is a discharge education study using health workers to enroll and randomly assign 800 subjects diagnosed with TIA, or mild stroke to either risk factor education or usual care. Those patients ...
Detailed Description
Stroke and its risk factors disproportionately affect minority populations, and secondary stroke prevention programs have had relatively little success. TIA and mild stroke patients with few after-aff...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Diagnosed with mild ischemic cerebral infarction or mild intracerebral hemorrhage (NIHSS \< 5) or TIA based on a clinical definition of focal neurologic deficits consistent with a single vascular territory of the brain
- Aged greater than 18 years at onset of event
- Resident of NY Metropolitan community in home with land or cell phone.
- Vascular risk factors including HTN history or elevated blood pressure (\>130/85 mmHg) at the time of discharge, smoking, diabetes or metabolic syndrome
- Discharge to home
- English or Spanish Speaker
Exclusion
- Patients unable to give informed consent
- Discharged to long-term nursing home or requiring 24 hour care.
- A Modified Rankin score \> 2 at baseline
- Pre-stroke dementia history.
- Patients with end stage cancer, or other medical conditions resulting in mortality less than 1 year.
- Patient does not speak English or Spanish.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2012
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 1 2019
Estimated Enrollment :
552 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01836354
Start Date
August 1 2012
End Date
November 1 2019
Last Update
February 17 2020
Active Locations (3)
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1
NYU Langone Medical Center
New York, New York, United States, 10016
2
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, United States, 10029
3
Columbia University
New York, New York, United States, 10032