Does Heart Failure Clinic Help Reduce Readmission into Hospital?

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Does Heart Failure Same Day Emergency Care Clinic Help Reduce Readmissions into Hospital for Patients with Confirmed Heart failure?

• IRAS ID

  348512

• Contact name

  Rachael Hall

• Contact email

  rachaelhall3@nhs.net

• Sponsor organisation

  Medway Maritime Hospital

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 2 months, 0 days

• Research summary

  The study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the SDEC (Same Day Emergency Care)/HF (Heart Failure) clinic in reducing admissions among heart failure patients presenting to the SDEC.

  It will review records of patients admitted primarily with symptoms of Heart Failure (HF) over the period of February to September 2022 and 2023 to look for readmissions with heart failure symptoms within the 1, 3, 6 months following their admission. The 2022 period shall be prior to the SDEC/HF clinic starting and 2023 when the clinic was established.
  This will be a retrospect cohort study looking at patient data within these time frames

• REC name

  North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2

• REC reference

  24/NS/0116

• Date of REC Opinion

  1 Oct 2024

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion