A Disease Management Study Targeted to Reduce Health Care Utilization for Patients With Congestive Heart Failure

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Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: The Focus is to Investigate Effects of a Disease Management Intervention for Patients With Congestive Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: Disease-Management intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02251899

HN-AHS-HS-2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine whether a nurse-managed telephone-based disease-management intervention can reduce healthcare utilization and improve self-assessed health status in patients with congestive heart failure.

Enrollment: 10,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with ≥1 unplanned inpatient occasion with primary diagnosis of heart failure ( I50) during the last 12 months
• Heart failure grade NYHA II- III
• Accurate heart failure diagnosis
• Living in one of four Swedish counties where the trial is ongoing

Exclusion criteria

• Deceased
• In a moribund state
• Significant cognitive loss and therefore cannot provide consent
• Psychosis diagnosis
• Severe hearing impairment
• Language difficulties
• Participants in another study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Disease-Management intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Behavioral: Disease-Management intervention The participants in the intervention group receive a nurse-managed disease-management intervention that is regularly delivered by telephone or, when necessary, in person

Treatment:

Behavioral: Disease-Management intervention

No Intervention: Control arm

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group not receiving any in