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Interventions to enable and reach patients with heart failure and their caregivers, with palliative care (TIER-HF-PC): a study protocol of a two-armed parallel group, open label randomised controlled trial that evaluates the effectiveness of a tiered model of palliative care in tertiary cardiac institutes in Singapore.
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Timely Interventions to Enable and Reach Patients With Heart Failure, and Their Caregivers With Palliative Care
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introductionPalliative care (PC) improves quality of life (QOL). However, PC is currently delivered 'too little, too late' in heart failure (HF). Timely interventions to enable and reach patients with HF and their caregivers, with PC (TIER-HF-PC) is a novel, nurse coach-led model of PC that integrates PC into HF care. We will compare the effectiveness of TIER-HF-PC against usual care for improving patient and caregiver health outcomes. We will also evaluate implementation outcomes (such as care experience) of TIER-HF-PC. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: In TIER-HF-PC, patients undergo regular distress screening. The intensity of PC treatments will be tiered based on the severity of problems detected. Minimally, all patients will receive PC education resources. Patients with moderate-intensity needs will receive PC health coaching. Patients with high-intensity needs will receive a PC physician consultation, on top of PC health coaching. Patients in usual care are not screened but can be referred to a PC physician based on cardiologist discretion.We will recruit 240 English- or Mandarin-speaking patients with HF and up to 240 caregivers from 3 sites across 2 cardiac centres. Patients will be randomised in a 1:1 ratio to TIER-HF-PC or usual care. We will use an intention-to-treat approach for data analysis. Our primary outcome is patient QOL on the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire at 24 weeks. Secondary outcomes include patient healthcare utilisation, caregiver QOL and cost-effectiveness. All participants who received PC treatments will receive a service evaluation survey. Additionally, a sample of these participants and their treating healthcare staff will be purposively recruited for in-depth semistructured interviews on their TIER-HF-PC experience. Interviews will be thematically analysed. We will evaluate protocol fidelity through case notes and study process audits. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This study was approved by the SingHealth Institutional Ethics Review Board-review number: 2024-2213. Results of the study will be disseminated when data analysis is complete. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT06244953.
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