NCT01519479

Palliative Care for Heart Failure Patients

An Examination of Palliative Care as Standard Practice for Heart Failure Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 232 (actual)
• Sponsor: Allina Health System · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of palliative care consultation on quality of life and symptom management for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure with a randomized control trial at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

Detailed description

Research questions: Q1. Does the provision of palliative care to heart failure patients yield higher quality of life, increased symptom management, or reduced depression compared to heart failure patients not receiving palliative care? Q2. Does the provision of palliative care to heart failure patients result in differential use of medical services (lower hospital days and readmission) compared to heart failure patients not receiving systematic palliative care?

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Palliative Care Consultation	Intervention patient would receive an inpatient palliative care consultation to focus on comprehensive symptom assessment, create goals of care/treatment plan which include recommendations and referrals.
OTHER	Control	The control group would receive usual care and could receive a palliative consult if ordered by the treating provider

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2012-01-27
• Last updated: 2019-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States