Frailty Assesment in the Congestive Heart Failure Clinic

Congestive Heart Failure Clinical Trial

Official title:

Frailty Assesment in the Congestive Heart Failure Clinic

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03465605
• Other study ID #: 0072-17MMC
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• First received: March 8, 2018
• Last updated: March 15, 2018
• Start date: April 2018
• Est. completion date: April 2019

Study information

• Verified date: March 2018
• Source: Meir Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Frailty is known as an independent risk factor for morbidity and mortality in older cardiac patients, including patients with congestive heart failure. It is an important factor taken into the cardiologists decision making in the clinic, and influences the intensity of follow up treatment, invasive intervention and the need to ensure a stronger social support system for the patient. Frailty assessment is usually made subjectively by the cardiologist, known in the literature as eyeball testing.

In this study the investigators will compare the cardiologists subjective eyeball testing to objective frailty assessment tests based on Fried score and Edmonton frail scale

Description:

Elderly patients visiting the congestive heart failure clinic at Meir Medical Center will be assessed for frailty twice. Once in an "eyeball" test by their cardiologist at the clinic, and a second time in an objective test based on fried and Edmonton frailty scores.

The second subjective assessment will be made by geriatric and internal medicine physicians, and the cardiologist won't be aware of the results of the objective assessment.

The results of both tests will be compared.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: April 2019
• Est. primary completion date: April 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 70 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients an the Meir congestive heart failure clinic.

• age 70 and above

• can sign an informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients admitted in the last two month

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Congestive Heart Failure
• Fragility Syndrome
• Heart Failure

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• frailty test
questionnaire

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Meir Medical Center

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	An objective frailty assessment using fries score an Edmonton frailty scale will be compared to a subjective eyeball frailty assessment.		1 week