Evaluation of a Back-to-home Support Program for Hospitalized Patients for Heart Failure

Heart Failure Clinical Trial

— PRADO_IC2  

Official title:

Evaluation of a Back-to-home Support Program for Hospitalized Patients for Heart Failure

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05566145
• Other study ID #: PRADO St Jo
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: December 15, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: September 2022
• Source: Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The prevalence of heart failure is very high worldwide is between 1 and 2% in developed countries.

The French Federation of Cardiology estimates that a million people are affected in France. Each year in France, there are nearly 70,000 deaths linked to heart failure, and more than 150,000 hospitalizations with an average cumulative duration per year of 12.7 days, figures which show the extent of the phenomenon. Heart failure is therefore a common pathology, which constitutes an important public health issue. It requires rigorous monitoring and early adaptation of treatments to avoid repeated hospitalizations. Studies show that following hospitalization for heart failure, all-cause re-hospitalization rates rise to 18% within 30 days. In 2019, the rate of re-hospitalization at 1 year is 30%, half of which in the following 3 months. The prognosis is grim with 20 to 30% of deaths within the year.

The European Society of Cardiology recommends that the patient be integrated into a care path coordinated by the general practitioner; and a consultation with his general practitioner in the week after hospitalization and his cardiologist within two weeks. The CPAM (Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie) has set up since 2013 the PRADO-IC program (Program for Return to Home Hospital for Heart Failure). This program must be in place before discharge from hospital. A health insurance advisor comes to meet the patient, declared eligible for PRADO by the hospital medical team, to present the offer and collect his approval before discharge. He then contacts the attending physician and organizes his return home. A follow-up book is given to the patient to allow better transmission of information between town and hospital.

A specially trained nurse visits the patient's home every week. The duration of PRADO support varies according to the NYHA stage of severity. It provides therapeutic education with reinforcement of hygieno-dietetic rules, warning signs, checks compliance with treatments and the necessary biological monitoring and must alert the attending physician in the event of aggravation.

The objectives of this program are: to preserve the quality of life and the autonomy of patients, to support the reduction of the length of stay in hospital, to strengthen the quality of care in town around the attending physician, improve the efficiency of recourse to hospitalization by reserving the heaviest structures for the patients who need them most.

Description:

The prevalence of heart failure is very high worldwide: according to the European Society of Cardiology, it is between 1 and 2% in developed countries.

The French Federation of Cardiology estimates that a million people are affected in France. This prevalence increases sharply with age, reaching 15% of people aged 85 and over.

Each year in France, there are nearly 70,000 deaths linked to heart failure, and more than 150,000 hospitalizations with an average cumulative duration per year of 12.7 days, figures which show the extent of the phenomenon. In addition, the aging of the population and the explosion of cardiovascular risk factors suggest that the impact of heart failure will be greater in the future.

Heart failure is therefore a common pathology, which constitutes an important public health issue. It requires rigorous monitoring and early adaptation of treatments to avoid repeated hospitalizations. Studies show that following hospitalization for heart failure, all-cause re-hospitalization rates rise to 18% within 30 days. According to a report from the Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie (CPAM) in 2019, the rate of re-hospitalization at 1 year is 30%, half of which in the following 3 months. The prognosis is grim with 20 to 30% of deaths within the year.

The European Society of Cardiology recommends that the patient be integrated into a care path coordinated by the general practitioner; and a consultation with his general practitioner in the week after hospitalization and his cardiologist within two weeks. But general practitioners deplore a lack of coordination between city and hospital with difficulties in taking care of their patient following hospitalization. According to the CPAM report, only 30% of re-hospitalized patients had contact with a cardiologist before their readmission, and 15% of patients had no contact with the health care system within 2 months of followed their hospitalization.

It is in this need to improve monitoring that the CPAM has set up since 2013 the PRADO-IC program (Support Program for Return to Home Hospital for Heart Failure). This program must be in place before discharge from hospital. A health insurance advisor comes to meet the patient, declared eligible for PRADO by the hospital medical team, to present the offer and collect his approval before discharge. He then contacts the attending physician and organizes his return home. A follow-up book is given to the patient to allow better transmission of information between town and hospital.

A specially trained nurse (internet training) visits the patient's home every week. The duration of PRADO support varies according to the NYHA stage of severity: a patient in NYHA stage I or II benefits from home support for a period of 2 months, and 6 months for NYHA stages III and IV. It should make it possible to monitor the constants: blood pressure, pulse, and weight. It provides therapeutic education with reinforcement of hygieno-dietetic rules (low sodium diet), warning signs (orthopnea, cough, dyspnea), checks compliance with treatments and the necessary biological monitoring and must alert the attending physician in the event of aggravation.

The objectives of this program are: to preserve the quality of life and the autonomy of patients, to support the reduction of the length of stay in hospital, to strengthen the quality of care in town around the attending physician, improve the efficiency of recourse to hospitalization by reserving the heaviest structures for the patients who need them most.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of the PRADO program on morbidity and mortality in a retrospective cohort of heart failure patients.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 616
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: January 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

For the PRADO Cohort

• Male or female whose age is = 18 years

• Patient hospitalized for heart failure in the GHPSJ Cardiology Department between September 2016 and December 2018 included in the PRADO program

• Patient affiliated to a CNAM IDF social security scheme (general scheme a priori)

• Patient understanding the research issues

For the control cohort

• Male or female whose age is = 18 years

• Patient hospitalized for congestive heart failure (ICD 10 code I500) or left ventricular failure (ICD 10 code I501) in the GHPSJ Cardiology department between September 2016 and December 2018

• Patient affiliated to a social security scheme CNAM IDF

• Patient discharged to home

• Not included in the PRADO program

• Patient who understands the research issues

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient transferred to another establishment or service (surgery, follow-up care, EHPAD...)

• Patient under guardianship or curatorship

• Patient deprived of liberty

• Patient at the end of life whose vital status is engaged

• Patient who objects to the use of his data

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heart Failure

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph	Paris

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (3)

Albert NM, Barnason S, Deswal A, Hernandez A, Kociol R, Lee E, Paul S, Ryan CJ, White-Williams C; American Heart Association Complex Cardiovascular Patient and Family Care Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, Council on Clinical Cardiology, and Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research. Transitions of care in heart failure: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circ Heart Fail. 2015 Mar;8(2):384-409. doi: 10.1161/HHF.0000000000000006. Epub 2015 Jan 20. — View Citation

Gheorghiade M, Vaduganathan M, Fonarow GC, Bonow RO. Rehospitalization for heart failure: problems and perspectives. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Jan 29;61(4):391-403. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.09.038. Epub 2012 Dec 5. — View Citation

Ponikowski P, Voors AA, Anker SD, Bueno H, Cleland JGF, Coats AJS, Falk V, González-Juanatey JR, Harjola VP, Jankowska EA, Jessup M, Linde C, Nihoyannopoulos P, Parissis JT, Pieske B, Riley JP, Rosano GMC, Ruilope LM, Ruschitzka F, Rutten FH, van der Meer P; ESC Scientific Document Group. 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC. Eur Heart J. 2016 Jul 14;37(27):2129-2200. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw128. Epub 2016 May 20. Erratum in: Eur Heart J. 2016 Dec 30;:. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Impact of the PRADO program on morbidity and mortality	This outcome corresponds to the combined rate of all-cause mortality and all-cause re-hospitalization at 1 year, wherever it occurred.	Year 1
Secondary	Mortality at 1 year	This outcome corresponds to the mortality at 1 year.	Year 1
Secondary	First re-hospitalization	This outcome corresponds to the delay until the first re-hospitalization during the year.	Year 1
Secondary	Time limit for the use of professionals	This outcome corresponds to the time to first consultation with a general practitioner in town.	Year 1