Heart Failure
Conditions
Brief summary
Heart failure is the number one cause of hospital readmission in those over 65 years of age and the current standard-of-care of weight self-monitoring is inadequate to predict exacerbation. This project aims to improve the monitoring of heart failure disease progression through the use of real-time, up-to-date data obtained both from a smart phone-based tool and from the electronic health record. The goal is to develop a low-risk, clinically validated method to estimate dynamic heart failure risk to enable the provision of earlier, more effective outpatient interventions that decrease hospitalization.
Interventions
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST6 Minute Walk Test Smart phone Application
The intervention requests participants to user the smart phone application at prescribed frequencies during the follow-up period.
Sponsors
University of California, San Francisco
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Hospitalized for decompensated heart failure * Age \>=18 years * Owns a smart phone * Willing to measure self assess 6 minute walk test weekly
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Heart failure hospitalization | 12 months | hospital inpatient admission or emergency room visit |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Heart failure mortality | 12 months | Death from heart failure |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed