New clinic aims to keep heart failure patients out of the hospital
NCT ID NCT06937827
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests a multidisciplinary clinic that provides heart failure patients with educational videos, a self-management kit, and follow-up phone calls after hospital discharge. The goal is to reduce 30-day readmission rates and improve patient satisfaction. The trial enrolls 150 adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction at a single medical center.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Heart failure kit and follow-up calls
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this approach could reduce hospital readmissions and improve quality of life for heart failure patients.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study (150 participants) at a single center, so results may not apply broadly. The intervention is behavioral, not a drug, so benefits may be modest.
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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 150 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2025
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2027
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 to 90 years
- 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: * Adults ages 18 to 90 years old discharged from Ocean University Medical Center (OUMC) * Inpatient admission for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) exacerbation * Patient discharged home with or without homecare Exclusion Criteria: * Refuse to participate in TOCC phone calls * Discharged to a facility * Discharged with homecare services * Discharged on hospice services * Hemodialysis * Leave against medical advice (AMA) * Pregnant * Diagnosed with dementia * Without medical capacity or unable to provide own consent
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Ocean University Medical Center
RECRUITINGBrick, New Jersey, 08724, United States
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