30 Days and 90 Days Heart Failure Re-Admission at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Extensive post discharge counselling and phone-based follow up.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Heart Failure. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Ghana
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Extensive Post-discharge Counselling and Phone-based Follow-up Intervention to Reduce Heart Failure Readmission- A Pilot Randomized Control Trial
Overview
In Ghana, about 88.3 per cent of cardiac admissions are due to Heart failure, making it the leading cause of admission due to heart conditions. Despite improved knowledge on heart failure and an increasing array of evidence-based guideline treatment options, there is still a significant readmission rate worldwide. This may be due to the underutilization of these evidence-based therapies or a lack of proper follow-up on these patients. Recurrent hospital admission is an independent predictor of death in heart failure. Strategies aimed at providing increased support at discharge and effective follow-up may be associated with lower readmission risk. This study aims to assess the effect of extensive post-discharge counselling and effective phone-based follow-up on the 30-day and 90-day heart failure readmission rate at a tertiary hospital in Ghana. This is a single-centre, pilot randomised controlled trial of heart failure patients admitted to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Interventions
- Other Extensive post discharge counselling and phone-based follow up
Counselling by their attending physicians plus Extensive post-discharge counselling from a study doctor/pharmacist/a trained nurse and telephone follow-ups in addition to their normal outpatient reviews. The telephone follow-ups will be weekly for the first 30 days and then 4 weekly till day 90.
Primary outcome measures
- 30-day and 90-day heart failure readmissions between the intervention group and the control group. [Time frame: 90 days]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- · Adults Aged 18 years and above
- Diagnosed with heart failure
- NYHA Class II-IV
- Informed consent
Exclusion criteria
- · NHYA class I
- Patients who do not have access to a mobile phone
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Ghana · 1 center
- Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital — Kumasi
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07100561 · KATHIRB/AP/031/25