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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN11535170
ISRCTN11535170
Completed
Not Applicable

Educational intervention to improve knowledge and clinical outcomes for low-literacy patients with congestive heart failure

niversity of North Carolina (USA)0 sites150 target enrollmentSeptember 27, 2005

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Heart failure
Sponsor
niversity of North Carolina (USA)
Enrollment
150
Status
Completed
Last Updated
11 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
September 27, 2005
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
11 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
niversity of North Carolina (USA)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Patients aged 30\-80 years with heart failure who also took furosemide.

Exclusion Criteria

  • 1\. Moderate to severe dementia
  • 2\. Terminal illness with life expectancy less than 6 months
  • 3\. Severe hearing impairment
  • 4\. Blindness
  • 5\. Current substance abuse
  • 6\. A serum creatinine \>4 mg/dl or on dialysis
  • 7\. A requirement of supplemental oxygen at home
  • 8\. Lacked a telephone
  • 9\. Patients who were scheduled to undergo cardiac surgery or awaiting heart transplant

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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