Optimising Congestive Heart Failure Outpatient Clinic Project — OPTIMAL  

Heart Failure Clinical Trial

Official title: Optimising Congestive Heart Failure Outpatient Clinic Project (OPTIMAL)

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This study examines whether a nurse monitored management program at the hospital heart failure outpatient clinic can improve quality of life in elderly patients with chronic heart failure, as compared to standard treatment in primary healthcare.

Clinical Trial Description

Patients 60 years of age or more hospitalized with heart failure according to New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II-IV and systolic dysfunction (left ventricular ejection fraction less than 0.45) are investigated before discharge and than randomized to the nurse monitored management program or to standard care. Examinations are performed at 0, 6, 12, and 18 months, and include clinical signs and symptoms, quality of life, biochemical assessment, echocardiography and drugs used. The study will be completed when all patients have passed the 18 month follow up examination. Quality of life is assessed by the Nottingham health profile. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heart Failure

• NCT number: NCT01671995
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Karolinska Institutet
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1996
• Completion date: June 2001