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Implementation and Interaction of Clinician And Patient-facing Tools Aiming to Intensify Neurohormonal Medicines for Heart Failure
Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver
Summary
An increasing number of guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMT) have been developed for patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). When used in combination at recommended doses, patients often experience significant improvements in cardiac function, quality of life, and survival.1,2 However, GDMT underuse occurs for the vast majority of patients with HFrEF. Two recent trials demonstrated improved GDMT prescribing during a clinic visit, each using automated delivery of a patient-centered decision support tool to promote a proactive and holistic approach to prescribing: EPIC-HF (NCT03334188) tested a brief video and checklist document sent to patients just prior to a clinic visit encouraging them to work with their clinicians to make at least 1 positive change to their GDMT; PROMPT-HF (NCT05433220) tested tailored electronic health record (EHR) alerts for GDMT intensification delivered to clinicians during clinic visits. The current I-I-CAPTAIN-HF study aims to broadly implement and test the EPIC-HF patient-facing and PROMPT-HF clinician-facing tools for HFrEF medication intensification at 5 health systems around the country through a pragmatic cluster-randomized implementation-effectiveness trial. This will occur through an initial phase of adaptation of the 2 tools at each health system. Once ready, the 2 tools will be tested using a 2x2 randomization at the clinician-level. In parallel, formal assessment of the implementation of EPIC-HF and PROMPT-HF will work to understand the most effective means of intervention design and delivery, as well as adaptations due to contextual factors to optimize use.
Official title: Implementation and Interaction of Clinician And Patient-facing Tools Aiming to Intensify Neurohormonal Medicines for Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: I-I-CAPTAIN-HF
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
2200
Start Date
2025-03-06
Completion Date
2028-09-01
Last Updated
2025-06-12
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
EPIC-HF Patient-facing Tool
A brief, animated video designed to engage and activate patients around their HFrEF medication prescribing sent prior to routine cardiology clinic visit, accompanied by a one-page HeartMeds Guide checklist.
PROMPT-HF Clinician-facing Alert
A best practice alert will appear for each eligible patient upon opening of the order entry screen in the patient's medical record. This alerts the provider of the presence of HFrEF, notes the patient's current LVEF and current evidence-based medications, and gives access to an order set with recommended evidence-based, guideline-recommended, and FDA- approved therapies for patients with HFrEF. Providers will also have access to a link to best available guideline recommended information regarding treatment of heart failure to allow further education if desired by the provider. The alerts will also clearly state the expected monitoring and follow-up required for prescriptions of these medications.
Locations (5)
Sutter Health
Walnut Creek, California, United States
University of Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States