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| Name | Class |
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| University of Virginia | OTHER |
| Abbott Point of Care | INDUSTRY |
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This is a prospective cohort to describe clinical characteristics, predictors of poor outcomes both during hospitalization and at home, functional status, and quality of life among patients aged 13 years or more, consecutively admitted with acute decompensated heart failure at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
This is a prospective observational cohort study to collect comprehensive data of heartfailure patients during and after hospitalization for acute heart failure at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (MRRH), Uganda. The investigators will collect sociodemographic, clinical, quality of life, functional status, and clinical cardiovascular disease measures during hospitalization and follow up for up to 1 year from the date of enrollment.
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| All-cause mortality | 1 year |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Length of hospitalization | Length of hospital stay | 1 year |
| Quality of life using the SF-36 questionnaire | Quality of life will be measured using SF-36 questionnaire. |
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Target Population: Patients hospitalized in a medical ward of a resource poor setting.
Accessible Population: Patients aged 13 years or more admitted with a diagnosis of acute decompensated Heart failure to the Medical ward of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Charles Fardous, MMED | Mbarara University of Science & Technology | Study Director |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital | Mbarara | N/A = Not Applicable | 0256 | Uganda |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 29655949 | Result | Abeya FC, Lumori BAE, Akello SJ, Annex BH, Buda AJ, Okello S. Incidence and predictors of 6 months mortality after an acute heart failure event in rural Uganda: The Mbarara Heart Failure Registry (MAHFER). Int J Cardiol. 2018 Aug 1;264:113-117. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.03.110. Epub 2018 Mar 29. |
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| 1 year |
| Functional status using the Kansas city cardiomyopathy questionnaire | Kansas city cardiomyopathy questionnaire will be used to measure functional status during hospitalization and quarterly after hospitalization with acute heartfailure. | 1 year |