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Prolonged impact of home versus clinic-based management of chronic heart failure: Extended follow-up of a pragmatic, multicentre randomized trial cohort
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Stewart, S and Carrington, MJ and Horowitz, JD and Marwick, TH and Newton, PJ and Davidson, PM and Macdonald, P and Thompson, DR and Chan, YK and Krum, H and Reid, C and Scuffham, PA, Prolonged impact of home versus clinic-based management of chronic heart failure: Extended follow-up of a pragmatic, multicentre randomized trial cohort, International Journal of Cardiology, 174, (3) pp. 600-610. ISSN 0167-5273 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.04.164
Abstract
OBJECTIVES:
We compared the longer-term impact of the two most commonly applied forms of post-discharge management designed to minimize recurrent hospitalization and prolong survival in typically older patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).
METHODS:
We followed a multi-center randomized controlled trial cohort of Australian patients hospitalized with CHF and initially allocated to home-based or specialized CHF clinic-based intervention for 1368±216days. Blinded endpoints included event-free survival from all-cause emergency hospitalization or death, all-cause mortality and rate of all-cause hospitalization and stay.
RESULTS:
280 patients (73% male, aged 71±14years and 73% left ventricular systolic dysfunction) were initially randomized to home-based (n=143) or clinic-based (n=137) intervention. During extended follow-up (complete for 274 patients), 1139 all-cause hospitalizations (7477days of hospital stay) and 121 (43.2%) deaths occurred. There was no difference in the primary endpoint; 20 (14.0%) home-based versus 13 (7.4%) clinic-based patients remained event-free (adjusted HR 0.89, 95% CI 0.70 to 1.15; p=0.378). Significantly fewer home-based (51/143, 35.7%) than clinic-based intervention (71/137, 51.8%) patients died (adjusted HR 0.62, 95% CI 0.42 to 0.90: p=0.012). Home-based versus clinic-based intervention patients accumulated 592 and 547 all-cause hospitalizations (p=0.087) associated with 3067 (median 4.0, IQR 2.0 to 6.8) versus 4410 (6.0, IQR 3.0 to 12.0) days of hospital stay (p<0.01 for rate and duration of hospital stay).
CONCLUSIONS:
Relative to clinic-based intervention, home-based intervention was not associated with prolonged event-free survival. Home-based intervention was, however, associated with significantly fewer all-cause deaths and significantly fewer days of hospital stay in the longer-term.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Chronic heart failure; Disease management programs; Readmission; Survival |
Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
Research Group: | Cardiovascular medicine and haematology |
Research Field: | Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) |
Objective Division: | Health |
Objective Group: | Clinical health |
Objective Field: | Clinical health not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Marwick, TH (Professor Tom Marwick) |
ID Code: | 92698 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 26 |
Deposited By: | Menzies Institute for Medical Research |
Deposited On: | 2014-06-25 |
Last Modified: | 2017-10-31 |
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