HEART Pathway Implementation

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the HEART Pathway, a clinical decision aid for the care of patients with chest pain, in a "real-world" clinical setting. This will be accomplished through the building of a transformative collaboration between research, education, and health systems operations to more effectively and efficiently provide patient care.

Clinical Trial Description

Millions of patients with chest pain are seen in Emergency Departments (EDs) every year. Over half of ED patients with chest pain are admitted to the hospital to undergo further testing. Despite high testing rates, less than 1 in 10 patients with chest pain are ultimately diagnosed with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) at estimated annual cost of $13 billion. Current care patterns for acute chest pain fail to focus health system resources, such as hospitalization and cardiac testing, on patients most likely to benefit.

The HEART Pathway, which combines a clinical decision aid, with two serial troponin measurements, has been developed to identify patients with chest pain who can safely be discharged without objective cardiac testing (stress testing or angiography). Prior retrospective and observational studies have established that use of the HEART Pathway reduces cardiac testing by >20%, while maintaining an acceptably low adverse event rate. We now seek to integrate the HEART Pathway into "real-world" clinical settings to determine effectiveness.

The goal of this proposal is to build a transformative collaboration bridging the gap between research, education, and health systems operations to more effectively and efficiently provide patient care. The vanguard for this collaboration seeks to improve quality of care for patients with acute chest pain by integrating the HEART Pathway into cardiovascular care delivery at Wake Forest Baptist Health (WFBH). This project will build on our prior work and provide a model for using the education and operational strengths of US academic medical centers to disseminate initiatives to improve care delivery. ;

Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Acute Coronary Syndrome
Chest Pain
Chest Pain Atypical Syndrome
Chest Pain Rule Out Myocardial Infarction
Infarction
Myocardial Infarction
Syndrome

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT02056964
Study type	Observational
Source	Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase
Start date	November 2013
Completion date	January 31, 2019

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