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Sponsor: University Hospital, Geneva
Conditions: Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction, Heart Failure; With Decompensation, Pharmacist-Patient Relations, Medication Adherence, Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Interventions: Patient therapeutic education
Countries: Switzerland
The objective is to evaluate the impact of a pharmacist-led therapeutic education intervention on the knowledge of hospitalized heart failure patients. The knowledge score on heart failure disease and medications will be compared between two groups one month after hospitalization. The intervention group will receive a therapeutic education intervention and usual hospital care and the control group will receive only usual hospital care.
Sex: ALL
Age: 18 Years to —
Healthy volunteers: No
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Inclusion Criteria: * Hospitalization in the Department of General Internal Medicine or Cardiology for decompensated heart failure with lowered left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) (≤40%) from any cause or mildly lowered LVEF (41-49%) with the presence of heart failure-specific drug therapy * Stability of the patient's clinical condition * ≥ 2 heart failure medications * ≥18 years * Full capacity of discernment * Absence of cognitive impairment * Ability to speak, understand and read in French * Get a personal telephone * Consent form signed by the participant Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to follow study procedures * Institutionalized persons * Asylum seekers, homeless people, prisoners * Incapacity of judgment and discernment
- Geneva, Switzerland