A remote monitoring and telephone nurse coaching intervention to reduce readmissions among patients with heart failure: study protocol for the Better Effectiveness After Transition - Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) randomized controlled trial

Jeanne T Black, Patrick S Romano, Banafsheh Sadeghi, Andrew D Auerbach, Theodore G Ganiats, Sheldon Greenfield, Sherrie H Kaplan, Michael K Ong, BEAT-HF Research Group, Arjang Ahmadpour, Wendy Davila, Susanne Engel, Ronald Jacolbia, Herman Lee, Laura Linares, Elizabeth Michel, Meghan Soulsby, Elizabeth Zellmer, Lida Esbati-Mashayekhi, Elisabeth Haddad, Marian Haskins, Tianne Larson, Kathryn Pratt, Hendry Ansorie, Kymberly Aoki, Ruth Baron, Eileen Brinker, Maureen Carroll, Annette Contasti, Anne Fekete, Vivian Guzman, Linda Larsen, Lisa Martinez, Sharon Myers, Amanda Schnell-Heringer, Arlene Taylor, Tracy Tooley, Melanee Schimmel, Geoffrey van den Brande, Evanthia Zaharias, John Billimek, Rocio Castaneda, Ma Elloi Delos Reyes, Dana Fine, Hassan Tammy Lo, Xoan Luu, Socorro Ochoa, Mayra Perez, David Rincon, Fidelia Sillas, Esther Wang, Visith Uy, Haiyong Xu, Stella Yala, Tingjian Yan, Jeanne T Black, Patrick S Romano, Banafsheh Sadeghi, Andrew D Auerbach, Theodore G Ganiats, Sheldon Greenfield, Sherrie H Kaplan, Michael K Ong, BEAT-HF Research Group, Arjang Ahmadpour, Wendy Davila, Susanne Engel, Ronald Jacolbia, Herman Lee, Laura Linares, Elizabeth Michel, Meghan Soulsby, Elizabeth Zellmer, Lida Esbati-Mashayekhi, Elisabeth Haddad, Marian Haskins, Tianne Larson, Kathryn Pratt, Hendry Ansorie, Kymberly Aoki, Ruth Baron, Eileen Brinker, Maureen Carroll, Annette Contasti, Anne Fekete, Vivian Guzman, Linda Larsen, Lisa Martinez, Sharon Myers, Amanda Schnell-Heringer, Arlene Taylor, Tracy Tooley, Melanee Schimmel, Geoffrey van den Brande, Evanthia Zaharias, John Billimek, Rocio Castaneda, Ma Elloi Delos Reyes, Dana Fine, Hassan Tammy Lo, Xoan Luu, Socorro Ochoa, Mayra Perez, David Rincon, Fidelia Sillas, Esther Wang, Visith Uy, Haiyong Xu, Stella Yala, Tingjian Yan

Abstract

Background: Heart failure is a prevalent health problem associated with costly hospital readmissions. Transitional care programs have been shown to reduce readmissions but are costly to implement. Evidence regarding the effectiveness of telemonitoring in managing the care of this chronic condition is mixed. The objective of this randomized controlled comparative effectiveness study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a care transition intervention that includes pre-discharge education about heart failure and post-discharge telephone nurse coaching combined with home telemonitoring of weight, blood pressure, heart rate, and symptoms in reducing all-cause 180-day hospital readmissions for older adults hospitalized with heart failure.

Methods/design: A multi-center, randomized controlled trial is being conducted at six academic health systems in California. A total of 1,500 patients aged 50 years and older will be enrolled during a hospitalization for treatment of heart failure. Patients in the intervention group will receive intensive patient education using the 'teach-back' method and receive instruction in using the telemonitoring equipment. Following hospital discharge, they will receive a series of nine scheduled health coaching telephone calls over 6 months from nurses located in a centralized call center. The nurses also will call patients and patients' physicians in response to alerts generated by the telemonitoring system, based on predetermined parameters. The primary outcome is readmission for any cause within 180 days. Secondary outcomes include 30-day readmission, mortality, hospital days, emergency department (ED) visits, hospital cost, and health-related quality of life.

Discussion: BEAT-HF is one of the largest randomized controlled trials of telemonitoring in patients with heart failure, and the first explicitly to adapt the care transition approach and combine it with remote telemonitoring. The study population also includes patients with a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Once completed, the study will be a rich resource of information on how best to use remote technology in the care management of patients with chronic heart failure.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov # NCT01360203.

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Diagram of BEAT-HF patient enrollment, randomization, intervention, and time line.

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