Status:
COMPLETED
Improving Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities
Lead Sponsor:
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Collaborating Sponsors:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Conditions:
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
Systolic Dysfunction
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
For congestive heart failure (CHF) patients with systolic dysfunction, a randomized controlled trial compared nurse-based disease management to address problems in patient and clinician management wit...
Detailed Description
Congestive heart failure (CHF) disproportionately afflicts Black and elderly people, and is a leading cause of hospitalization \> 65 years. Although effective therapies can improve functioning and sur...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- • adults \>18 years,
- systolic dysfunction documented on a cardiac test (echocardiography, radionuclide ventriculography, myocardial stress sestamibi/thallium testing, or left-heart catheterization),
- English- or Spanish-speaking,
- community-dwelling at enrollment, and
- current patient in a general medicine, geriatrics, or cardiology clinic or office at a participating site.
Exclusion
- • medical conditions that prevented a patient's interacting with the nurse, including blindness, deafness, and cognitive impairment;
- medical conditions that required individualized management that might differ from standard protocol, namely pregnancy, renal dialysis, and terminal illness; and
- procedures that corrected systolic dysfunction, such as heart transplantation.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2000
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 1 2002
Estimated Enrollment :
406 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00211874
Start Date
September 1 2000
End Date
September 1 2002
Last Update
October 12 2015
Active Locations (4)
Enter a location and click search to find clinical trials sorted by distance.
1
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York, United States, 10029-6574
2
Metropolitan Hospital
New York, New York, United States, 10029
3
North General Hospital
New York, New York, United States, 10035
4
Harlem Hospital
New York, New York, United States, 10037