Status:
COMPLETED
Caregiver Enhanced Assistance and Support for the Elderly Heart Failure Patient at Hospital Discharge (CEASE-HF)
Lead Sponsor:
McMaster University
Conditions:
Heart Failure
Eligibility:
All Genders
60+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Close to ninety percent of older heart failure (HF) patients have some cognitive deficits at hospital discharge which may impact their ability to make effective decisions about their healthcare. Howev...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Primary diagnosis of Heart Failure (with preserved or impaired left ventricular systolic dysfunction) confirmed with the Boston Criteria \>= 5 points
- 60 years of age or older
Exclusion
- Residence in, or planned discharge to a long-term care facility (LTC)
- Life expectancy less than 3 months
- Patient transferred to Geriatric Rehabilitation unit
- No caregiver
- Residence is more than a 30 minute rive from hospital of discharge
- Patient refused to participate
- Caregiver refused to participate
- Patient referred for CV surgery prior to hospital discharge
- Patient on IV Lasix at or bumetamide at hospital discharge
- Not on PO Lasix at hospital discharge
- Patient currently on dialysis
- Caregiver unavailable during daytime hours
- Caregiver has disability, serious mental illness or cognitive dysfunction
- Patient discharged early
- Patient enrolled in another randomized controlled trial
- Patient expired
- Patient and caregiver unable to speak and read English (Patient may be enrolled if nurse can converse minimally with patient and caregiver. S-TOFHLA will not be done for reading comprehension and questionnaires will be administered orally.)
- Severe aortic stenosis or severe mitral stenosis
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2012
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
78 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01886534
Start Date
September 1 2012
End Date
December 1 2016
Last Update
December 22 2016
Active Locations (1)
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McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N3Z5