NCT01739686

Collaborative Care to Alleviate Symptoms and Adjust to Illness in Chronic Heart Failure (CASA) Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 317 (actual)
• Sponsor: Denver Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic heart failure is an important public health problem as it is a leading cause of disability, hospitalization, death, and costs. People who live with advanced chronic heart failure suffer from numerous symptoms that affect their daily lives. The investigators are conducting a randomized clinical trial to evaluate a symptom management and psychosocial care intervention to improve health status (symptom burden, functioning, and quality of life). The results will be directly relevant to patients and families who suffer with this illness, as well as to providers, payers, and other researchers.

Conditions

• Chronic Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	CASA Intervention	CASA Intervention The CASA (Collaborative Care to Alleviate Symptoms and Adjust to Illness) intervention includes 3 components: A nurse (RN) follows structured algorithms to help patients with symptoms, specifically breathlessness, fatigue, pain, and depression. A social worker provides structured counseling targeting adjustment to illness and depression if present. A collaborative care model of care delivery, in which the nurse and social worker meet weekly with a primary care provider, cardiologist and palliative care specialist. This team makes medical recommendations to the intervention subjects' providers and supervises the nurse and social worker. Most of the nurse and social worker visits are by phone.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-12-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2012-12-03
• Last updated: 2017-08-01

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States