Developing optimal pathways of care for Heart Failure patients

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  DEVELOPMENT OF SCALABLE NEW MODEL(S) FOCUSED ON CARE COORDINATION AND CARE PROVISION FOR MEDICALLY COMPLEX, CO-MORBID CHRONIC DISEASE PATIENT SEGMENTS FOCUSING ON HEART FAILURE

• IRAS ID

  189928

• Contact name

  Paul Kalra

• Contact email

  paulkalra@doctors.org.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 3 months, 7 days

• Research summary

  The goal is to define a set of clinical pathways for heart failure patients, reflecting the period from prior to admission to the post-discharge period following hospitalisation, under the current system that exists at the two clinical sites [as mentioned previously, the main site is at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin, but to ensure generalizability we will also carry out similar work Portsmouth Hospital, UK] These pathways have been drawn up using the experience of the clinical investigators, using an interactive workshop approach and a pilot study.
  1) Pre-Admission Pathway
  2) ED Pathway
  3) In-Hospital management Pathway
  4) Pre-discharge Pathway
  5) Post-Discharge Pathway

  During identification of these pathways, the research team identified the settings/personnel that require study to more fully comprehend the methods, strengths and weaknesses of the present processes. Our activities are focused on two aspects of the patient journey, immediately before discharge and three months post discharge during the outpatient phase.

• REC name

  East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  16/EM/0305

• Date of REC Opinion

  11 Aug 2016

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion