Alexander T Sandhu, Jamie Calma, Megan Skye, Neil M Kalwani, Jimmy Zheng, Jessica Schirmer, Natasha Din, Cati Brown Johnson, Anshal Gupta, Roy Lan, Brian Yu, John A Spertus, Paul A Heidenreich
BACKGROUND: The impact of routine clinic use of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures on clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF) has not been well-characterized. We tested if clinic-based use of a disease-specific PRO improves patient-reported quality of life at 1 year. METHODS: PRO-HF was an open-label, parallel, patient-level randomized clinical trial of routine PRO assessment or usual care at an academic HF clinic between August 30, 2021, and June 30, 2022, with 1 year of follow-up...
April 7, 2024: Circulation