Follow-up Strategies for Fragile Patients With Decompensated Heart Failure

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Heart Failure; With Decompensation; Fragility

Treatments: Other: Management Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04643184

5452

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized controlled clinical trial with intervention branch (management program cardiological-geriatric) and control branch (usual care) for fragile patients with decompensated heart failure.

Full description

Randomized controlled clinical trial with intervention branch (management program cardiological-geriatric) and control branch (usual care) for fragile patients with decompensated heart failure. Follow-up period 1 month.

This protocol aims through a multidisciplinary vision, to carry out during hospitalization a comprehensive geriatric evaluation that allows to know the medical and socio-environmental needs of the patient to plan the required care at home and achieve an effective transition.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age 65 years or older
2. Decompensated heart failure
3. FRAIL scale equal to 3 or more points
4. Permanent residence in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires

Exclusion criteria

1. Refusal to participate in the study
2. Terminal oncology or cardiological disease
3. Reversible or treatable etiology heart failure (e.g. Takotsubo, acute cardiomyocarditis)
4. Patients followed by geriatrics prior to admission
5. Simultaneous participation in another research protocol

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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37 participants in 2 patient groups

Management Program

Experimental group

Description:

Comanagement program (cardiological-geriatric) to carry out during hospitalization a comprehensive evaluation that allows to know the medical and socio-environmental needs of the patients to plan the required care at home and achieve an effective transition.

Treatment:

Other: Management Program

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care during hospitalizacion and discharge.