40
Participants
Start Date
January 30, 2017
Primary Completion Date
May 30, 2019
Study Completion Date
July 1, 2019
Mobile phone app (VAD Care App)
"VAD Care App is a novel self-management tool being tested for patients with implantable LVADs. The app has daily push notifications (alerts), cues for daily self-management tasks, two-way communication using text messages and videoconferencing (virtual clinic), and links to LVAD self-management skills and videos easily accessible for self-management skill review."
Usual LVAD Care
Routine clinic follow-up visits over 6 months. Patients and caregivers will both receive self-management education post discharge and as needed throughout the duration of the study.
New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St Louis
Bryan Heart, Lincoln
Washington University School of Medicine
OTHER
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
NIH
University of Michigan
OTHER