A remote monitoring and telephone nurse coaching intervention to reduce readmissions among patients with heart failure: study protocol for the Better Effectiveness After Transition - Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) randomized controlled trial

Trials

Michael K Ong³  Sherrie H Kaplan⁵  Sheldon Greenfield⁵  Theodore G Ganiats¹  Andrew D Auerbach⁴  Banafsheh Sadeghi⁶  Patrick S Romano⁶  Jeanne T Black² 

[1] Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA;Resource and Outcomes Management Department, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA;Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA;Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA;Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, USA;Department of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, USA

关键词: Self-care;    Care coordination;    Readmission;    Nurse coaching;    Telemonitoring;    Heart failure;   

Others  :  806913
DOI  :  10.1186/1745-6215-15-124

 received in 2013-09-29, accepted in 2014-03-19,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Heart failure is a prevalent health problem associated with costly hospital readmissions. Transitional care programs have been shown to reduce readmissions but are costly to implement. Evidence regarding the effectiveness of telemonitoring in managing the care of this chronic condition is mixed. The objective of this randomized controlled comparative effectiveness study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a care transition intervention that includes pre-discharge education about heart failure and post-discharge telephone nurse coaching combined with home telemonitoring of weight, blood pressure, heart rate, and symptoms in reducing all-cause 180-day hospital readmissions for older adults hospitalized with heart failure.

Methods/Design

A multi-center, randomized controlled trial is being conducted at six academic health systems in California. A total of 1,500 patients aged 50 years and older will be enrolled during a hospitalization for treatment of heart failure. Patients in the intervention group will receive intensive patient education using the ‘teach-back’ method and receive instruction in using the telemonitoring equipment. Following hospital discharge, they will receive a series of nine scheduled health coaching telephone calls over 6 months from nurses located in a centralized call center. The nurses also will call patients and patients’ physicians in response to alerts generated by the telemonitoring system, based on predetermined parameters. The primary outcome is readmission for any cause within 180 days. Secondary outcomes include 30-day readmission, mortality, hospital days, emergency department (ED) visits, hospital cost, and health-related quality of life.

Discussion

BEAT-HF is one of the largest randomized controlled trials of telemonitoring in patients with heart failure, and the first explicitly to adapt the care transition approach and combine it with remote telemonitoring. The study population also includes patients with a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Once completed, the study will be a rich resource of information on how best to use remote technology in the care management of patients with chronic heart failure.

Trial registration

ClinicalTrials.gov # NCT01360203.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Black et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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