Multicentre Tasmanian Study of a Multidisciplinary Intervention to Reduce Readmission and Death of Patients admitted with Heart Failure

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Heart Failure; Cardiovascular - Other cardiovascular diseases

• Registration Number: ACTRN12616001303437
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Tasmania

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-09-16
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 412

Inclusion Criteria

Admission to hospital with heart failure

Exclusion Criteria

- Unable to provide written informed consent to participate in this study
- Participating in another clinical research trial where randomized treatment would be unacceptable
- Moderate or worse primary mitral or aortic valve disease
- Any HF admission within the last 6 months
- Concomitant unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction
- Device malfunction, endocarditis
- Patients with LVAD
- Potentially reversible LV dysfunction – post-partum, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, hyperthyroidism
- Concomitant terminal non-cardiac illnesses that could influence 12 month prognosis (e.g. advanced malignancy),
- Inability to acquire interpretable images (identified from baseline echo)

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified