Patient Journey in Hospital With Heart Failure in Turkish Population (JournayHF-TR)

Ege University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: Demographic and clinical characteristics, clinical history, symptoms and signs, initial emergency department evaluation, and subsequent inpatient management of HF patients

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02487056

JournayHF-TR

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compose a national database of the etiologies, clinical and demographic characteristics, using diagnostic tests, precipitating and risk factors, management of from intensive care unit or coronary care unit to hospital discharge, length of stay in the intensive care unit and hospital, in-hospital mortality and discharge medications of hospitalized acute heart failure patients in Turkish population.

Full description

The etiologies, precipitating factors, demographics, clinical characteristics, management and outcome of patients admitted in hospital with acute heart failure in Turkish population will be recorded.

Enrollment: 1,622 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients >18 years olds
• Clinical diagnosis of acute heart failure
• Admitted to the participating hospitals

Exclusion criteria

• Patients <18 years old
• Patients with acute heart failure who are discharged from the emergency room without admission.
• Failure to obtain informed consent

Trial design

1,622 participants in 1 patient group

Hospitalized AHF

Description:

Patients who were hospitalized with a diagnosis of AHF in the intensive care unit (ICU)/coronary care unit and cardiology wards

Treatment:

Behavioral: Demographic and clinical characteristics, clinical history, symptoms and signs, initial emergency department evaluation, and subsequent inpatient management of HF patients