Pilot Study Exploring the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Impact of Medically Tailored Meals on Post-Discharge Recovery in Patients With Heart Failure (HF-MTM)

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Other: Medically Tailored Meals

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07251894

859165

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this interventional pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of medically tailored meals (MTM) on post-discharge recovery in patients with heart failure for Penn Medicine patients in Philadelphia and Lancaster through two pilots.

Full description

Pilot 1: Will enroll 30 eligible Penn Medicine patients to receive 4 weeks of medically tailored meals (MTMs) directly to their door. Patients will be given the opportunity to choose to receive 7/14/21 meals from the MTM provider for the duration of their participation in the 4 week pilot.

Pilot 1 participants will be asked to complete a baseline survey, and end of study survey, and an end of study semi-structured interview.

Pilot 2: Will expand upon the learnings from Pilot 1 and be a larger scale longer Food is Medicine (FIM) intervention with patients receiving 8 weeks of MTM deliveries directly to their door. As with Pilot 1, patients will be given the opportunity to choose to receive 7/14/21 meals from the MTM provider for the duration of their participation in the 8 week pilot.

Pilot 2 participants will be asked to complete a baseline survey, a mid-point survey at 4 weeks, and an end of study survey and semi-structured interview.

Enrollment: 85 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 18 years old
• Have a primary diagnosis of health failure based on ICD code I50* with active hospitalization at time of enrollment
• Must be insured by Medicaid or Medicare or dual eligible
• Ability to read and speak English
• Ability to provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Are on hospice care or reside in an acute or skilled nursing facility
• Are undergoing evaluation for advanced HF treatments including heart transplant or ventricular assist devices
• Are unable to complete data collection due to cognitive decline or disability (based on the electronic health record or referring provider assessment)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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85 participants in 1 patient group

Medically Tailored Meals

Experimental group

Description:

Participants can choose to receive a weekly delivery of 7, 14, or 21 medically tailored meals at no cost to them for 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Medically Tailored Meals