Web-Based heart failure program aims to cut hospital returns
NCT ID NCT07472660
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether a one-year program led by heart failure nurses, using online training and a mobile app, can reduce repeat hospital stays and improve quality of life for people with heart failure. About 200 adults who were recently hospitalized for worsening heart failure will take part. The program includes education, monitoring, and connection to a heart failure network, compared to usual care.
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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 200 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2029
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 to 80 years
- 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: * Hospitalization due to symptomatic HF NYHA II-IV, defined according to valid international guidelines, including signs of congestion, ejection fraction ≤40%, elevated NTproBNP * Age 18 - 80 years * Life expectancy \> 2 years * Access to internet, physical and mental ability and consent to participate in a HFN-guided web-based prevention program Exclusion Criteria: * Persistent NYHA IV at discharge * Reversible cause of heart failure (such as tachycardiomyopathy, acute myocarditis, pacemaker-induced HF, etc.) * Ejection fraction \>40% (HFmrEF, HFpEF) * Patient refusal or inability to give informed consent * Participation in another trial * Exercise limitations due to clinical conditions not related to HF, e.g. disabling orthopedic, rheumatological, hematooncological or neurological diseases (such as disabling stroke), severe lung diseases (such as COLD GOLD IV) * Any major non-cardiac condition that would adversely affect survival during the duration of the study, e.g. malignant comorbidities with prognosis \< 2 years or other severe comorbidities (such as end-stage liver cirrhosis) with prognosis \< 2 years * Inability to cooperate with the protocol, e.g. chronic active drug and/or alcohol abuse, severe mental disorders (such as dementia), deafness or severe language barrier (with no sufficient options for translation), inability to come to the study visits for endpoint assessment
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Bremen Institute for Heart- and Circulation Research
RECRUITINGBremen, 28277, Germany
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