The Türkiye Heart Failure Registry (TURK-HF)

February 27, 2025 updated by: Umut Kocabas, Baskent University

The Türkiye Heart Failure (TURK-HF) Registry

A comprehensive understanding of the socio-demographic, clinical, and biological characteristics of patients with heart failure is essential to develop novel strategies for improving outcomes. The identification of the barriers to guideline-directed medical therapy implementation in a real-world setting is critical to decreasing the risk of heart failure hospitalization and mortality. A comprehensive and well-designed heart failure registry can determine the clinical characteristics of patients with heart failure, identify patient, physician, and healthcare system-related factors for the non-use of evidence-based therapies, and improve the implementation of guideline-directed medical therapy. It should be noted that the number of heart failure registries that enroll patients with de novo heart failure, chronic heart failure (outpatients), and worsening of heart failure (hospitalized or treated in the emergency department), with all three relevant ejection fraction categories (heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, heart failure with mildly-reduced ejection fraction, and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction), is limited. Furthermore, only a few registries assess detailed aspects of guideline adherence, treatment decisions, and both in-hospital and long-term outcomes. Therefore, the Türkiye Heart Failure (TURK-HF) registry has been designed to address this gap in knowledge about the identification, management, and long-term prognosis of patients with heart failure in a real-world setting.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Estimated)

5000

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

  • Turkey
      • Ankara, Turkey, 0600
        • Recruiting
        • Baskent University
        • Contact:

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The only inclusion criterion for the Türkiye Heart Failure (TURK-HF) registry is the presence of heart failure, as determined by an investigator, and the only exclusion criterion is age <18 years. All patients will be eligible for enrollment regardless of their ejection fraction and whether they have pre-existing chronic or de novo heart failure. All patients will be enrolled in the study, regardless of their clinical status. This encompasses both those presenting for a non-urgent outpatient visit with stable signs and symptoms and those requiring urgent care with worsening of heart failure. Worsening heart failure is defined as worsening symptoms and signs of heart failure in patients with pre-existing heart failure, requiring hospitalization and/or intravenous diuretic therapy. All study participants must provide written informed consent.

Description

Inclusion Criteria: Presence of heart failure -

Exclusion Criteria: Age <18 years

-

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Heart failure hospitalization
Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of follow-up period at 12 months
From enrollment to the end of follow-up period at 12 months
Cardiovascular mortality
Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of follow-up period at 12 months
From enrollment to the end of follow-up period at 12 months
Composite of heart failure hospitalization and cardiovascular mortality
Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of follow-up period at 12 months
From enrollment to the end of follow-up period at 12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
All-cause mortality
Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of follow-up period at 12 months
From enrollment to the end of follow-up period at 12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Baskent University

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 8, 2025

Primary Completion (Estimated)

January 1, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 1, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 24, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 24, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

November 27, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 25, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 27, 2025

Last Verified

February 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • KA23/429

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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