Evaluation of a strategy to diminish admissions in patients with heart failure
Completed
- Conditions
- Heart failureCirculatory System
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN62033748
- Lead Sponsor
- Hospital Donostia (Spain)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
Inclusion Criteria
1. Patients of any gender, aged older than 65 years
2. Heart failure stage III - IV New York Heart Association (NYHA)
3. At least two admissions during the previous year
Exclusion Criteria
1. Moderate or severe dementia
2. Physical disability for aerobic activities
3. Refusal to participate
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measured at the end of the study (see above anticipated end date):<br>1. Number of admissions<br>2. Number of emergency department visits
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Measured at the end of the study (see above anticipated end date):<br>1. Quality of life (36-item short form health survey [SF-36]) at the beginning and end of the study<br>2. Perceived quality of medical attention, measured using the Spanish SERVQHOS questionnaire, at the beginning and end of the study