NCT01834833

Consultation at 8 Days to Reduce Hospitalisations in Heart Failure Patient

Consultation at 8 Days to Reduce Hospitalisations in Heart Failure Patient.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 326 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Evaluate the benefit of systematic appointment with a cardiologist a week after hospitalisation for acute heart failure. Randomised, endpoint: number of day alive out of hospital during 6 months

Detailed description

Background: the risk for rehospitalisation is very high after hospitalisation for acute heart failure. Aim: evaluate the benefit of a consultation with a cardiologist, including echocardiography and education of the patient, between 7 and 15 days after discharge, in high risk patients, identified with BNP or incomplete therapy. Parallel randomised study. The main endpoint is the number of day alive out of hospital during the 6 months post discharge; statistics intention to treat comparison of the number of days alive out of hospital in the group with consultation compared with the group without consultation. Recruitment 3 years and 4 months, follow-up 6 months. Patients included have been hospitalised in hospital BICHAT 75018 Paris, France. Financing is by the ministry of health (PHRQHOS)

Conditions

• Acute Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Follow-up	Evaluation by a cardiologist using echocardiography, completed by education of the patient if necessary

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-01
• Completion: 2017-07-01
• First posted: 2013-04-18
• Last updated: 2018-10-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France