Effect of a Collaborative Care Intervention vs Usual Care on Health Status of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure: The CASA Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Many patients with chronic heart failure experience reduced health status despite receiving conventional therapy.

Objective

To determine whether a symptom and psychosocial collaborative care intervention improves heart failure-specific health status, depression, and symptom burden in patients with heart failure.

Design, setting, and participants

A single-blind, 2-arm, multisite randomized clinical trial was conducted at Veterans Affairs, academic, and safety-net health systems in Colorado among outpatients with symptomatic heart failure and reduced health status recruited between August 2012 and April 2015. Data from all participants were included regardless of level of participation, using an intent-to-treat approach.

Interventions

Patients were ran

SUBMITTER: Bekelman DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5876807 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature