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NCT03724695: AHCAH
Advanced Heart Care at Home
NA trial testing Clinician nudge or opt out approach for AHCAH liaison visit in Palliative Care in 709 participants. Completed in 29 October 2024.
29 October 2024
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | University of Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | health services research |
| Enrollment | 709 |
| Start date | 13 November 2018 |
| Primary completion | 29 October 2024 |
| Estimated completion | 29 October 2024 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Clinician nudge or opt out approach for AHCAH liaison visit
Conditions studied
- Palliative Care — all drugs for Palliative Care →
- Heart Failure — all drugs for Heart Failure →
- Health Care Utilization — all drugs for Health Care Utilization →
- Quality Improvement — all drugs for Quality Improvement →
Sponsor
University of Pennsylvania
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Palliative Care or Heart Failure. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
End-of-life (EOL) care for heart failure (HF) patients includes high healthcare utilization and costs, in part due to the lack of integration of optimal HF management and home-based palliative care. In a pilot quality improvement project of clinician "nudges" to enroll seriously ill HF patients in a home-based, integrated HF and palliative care platform, the investigators demonstrated decreased healthcare utilization and costs and increased hospice utilization among seriously ill HF patients. The investigators propose a pragmatic randomized trial for clinicians of seriously ill HF patients admitted to three University of Pennsylvania Health System Hospitals, randomly assigning an opt-in approach (usual care) versus a "nudge" or opt-out approach of a visit from an Advanced Heart Care at Home (AHCAH) liaison to clinicians of eligible patients to discuss and enroll in the AHCAH program, to rigorously and scientifically evaluate clinical, utilization, and cost outcomes among high-risk HF patients at the EOL, and to promote physician uptake of best practices.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03724695 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Pennsylvania
- Last refreshed: 26 January 2026
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