Digital Check-Ins may Fine-Tune heart failure meds
NCT ID NCT06942221
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether using telemedicine (video or phone check-ins) can help doctors better adjust heart failure medications after patients leave the hospital. About 140 adults with heart failure and reduced pumping ability will be split into two groups: one gets usual care, the other gets digital follow-up. The goal is to see if the telemedicine group gets their medicines optimized faster and more safely.
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Study facts
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- 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 140 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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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: 1. Age \> 18 years at the time of hospital admission 2. Ability to use a (smart)phone and/or tablet for the follow-up 3. Documented left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) \> 40% assessed within preceding 12 months 4. Not treated with optimal doses of oral HF therapies within 2 days before anticipated hospital discharge for acute HF in at least one of the medication categories (for details see Table 1 on page 10) 5. Hospitalized due to acute HF decompensation. 6. Specific measures within 24 hours prior to randomization * Systolic blood pressure \> 100 mmHg, and heart rate \> 60bpm * Serum potassium \< 5mmol/L Exclusion Criteria: 1. Inability to use a (smart)phone or tablet 2. Clear intolerance to high doses of betablockers, ACE inhibitors, or ARBs 3. Estimated glomerular filtration rate \<30ml/min/1.73m2 or dialysis 4. Myocardial infarction, unstable angina or cardiac surgery within 3 months, percutaneous transluminal coronary intervention within 1 months prior to screening 5. Cardiac resynchronization therapy device implantation within 3 months prior to screening 6. Presence of significant obstructive lesion of the left ventricular outflow tract 7. Amyloid cardiomyopathy 8. Participation in other clinical trials for drugs 9. Pregnant or nursing women 10. Women of child-bearing potential who are unwilling to abstain from sexual intercourse with men or practice appropriate contraception
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University Hospital Basel
RECRUITINGBasel, 4031, Switzerland
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