Digital nudges aim to optimize heart failure care
NCT ID NCT06844006
First seen Aug 10, 2026 · Last updated Aug 11, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests whether a digital tool that prompts doctors to adjust heart failure medications can improve care. The tool uses home monitoring and patient data to suggest medication changes. The study includes over 1,300 adults with heart failure and will measure hospitalizations and deaths.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- A digital decision-support tool that prompts clinicians to optimize guideline-directed medical therapy based on remote monitoring and patient data.
- What this could lead to
- If effective, this digital tool could help doctors better tailor heart failure medications, potentially reducing hospitalizations and deaths.
- What could go wrong
- The intervention is a behavioral prompt, so its impact may vary. The trial is large but results depend on real-world clinician adoption and patient factors.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 1,320 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2024
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * All heart failure diagnoses * \>18 years Exclusion Criteria: * Not understanding the Dutch Language. * Allergies that make uptitration impossible. * Admission to hospice or palliative care. * Severe psychological disorders.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
5 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Catharina Ziekenhuis
Eindhoven, North Brabant, 5623 EJ, Netherlands
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Maasstad hospital
Rotterdam, South Holland, 3079DZ, Netherlands
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Medisch Spectrum Twente
Enschede, Overijssel, 7512KZ, Netherlands
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OLVG-oost
Amsterdam, North Holland, 1091AC, Netherlands
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St. Antonius hospital
Nieuwegein, Utrecht, 3435CM, Netherlands
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