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Improving Risk Stratification of Emergency Department Patients With Acute Heart Failure

Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Heart Failure
Registration Number
NCT06065761
Lead Sponsor
Kaiser Permanente
Brief Summary

The primary goal is to build and test a previously developed and validated risk model and clinical decision support tool embedded within the electronic health record to improve risk stratification of emergency department (ED) patients with acute heart failure (AHF).

Detailed Description

The study team will build an electronic health record-embedded clinical decision support tool using a recently developed risk prediction model that curates patient-specific data in real-time, accurately estimates short-term patient risk, and presents tailored clinical recommendations. This will be a regional implementation study in which the tool is turned on at 21 emergency departments (ED) across Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC). The study team will validate risk predictions and study key clinical outcomes as part of this trial.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
17459
Inclusion Criteria
  • Adult (≥18y) KPNC members treated in the ED for presumed acute heart failure
Exclusion Criteria
  • Children (<18y).
  • Patients who left against medical advice or eloped prior to ED physician evaluation.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of patients with serious adverse events30 days from index ED visit

Serious adverse events include mortality, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), intubation/ventilation, new end-stage renal disease (ESRD), balloon pump placement, or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)/coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)

Number of patients with all-cause mortality30 days from index ED visit
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (21)

Kaiser Permanente Antioch Emergency Department

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Antioch, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Fremont Emergency Department

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Fremont, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center

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Fresno, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Manteca Medical Center

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Manteca, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Modesto Medical Center

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Modesto, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Oakland Emergency Department

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Oakland, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Emergency Department

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Redwood City, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Richmond Emergency Department

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Richmond, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente Roseville Emergency Department

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Roseville, California, United States

Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Emergency Department

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Sacramento, California, United States

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Kaiser Permanente Antioch Emergency Department
🇺🇸Antioch, California, United States

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