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Developing a Hub and Satellite Heart Failure Providers Network
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating HF training and No HF training for Heart Failure. Completed, enrolled 6 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The aim of this study is to serve as a pilot showing the feasibility of a "Hub and Satellite" Heart Failure (HF) Provider's Network which will aim to provide improved, evidence-based care to Veterans with HF. Primary Care Providers in the VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) will undergo a brief period of intensive training in HF management and then practice in a network of primary care providers supported by the Regional HF Center.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
These are CBOC Providers who received HF Training as the active intervention. HF training includes didactic lectures, case discussions and interactive symposia, course materials including teaching material, textbooks, copies of HF clinical guidelines and patient education material for distribution, participation in HF Clinics and Inpatient Heart Failure Rounds. Providers were given access to clinical pharmacist services Including medication and disease teaching, adjustment and uptitration. There was quarterly analysis of patient compliance including individualized confidential, non-punitive feedback to providers from a set of prespecified core HF performance measures.
These are control providers drawn from the same CBOCs who have not received HF training, access to clinical pharmacist medication titration services or performance feedback