Guideline Implementation and Quality of Care in Patients With Heart Failure: the TITRATE-HF Registry

NCT ID: NCT06386042

Last Updated: 2025-08-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 4289 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-06-05
• Study Completion Date: 2029-04-30

Brief Summary

SUMMARY Rationale: Quality of Care registries provide valuable insight in guideline adherence and implementation of guideline recommendations in routine clinical practice.

Objective: The overall aim of the project is to study the titration of guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) according to the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) HF 2021 guideline recommendations for patients with heart failure (HF) reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), and mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF).

Study design: The current study is a prospective multi-center national quality of care registry (longitudinal) of regular HF care (as given).

Study population: The study population consists of patients with heart failure (de novo HF, chronic HF and worsening HF). Study setting is outpatient or inpatient (during admission). Patient sample is set at a minimum of 4000 patients, but can be expanded during the course of the registry project.

Participating sites: all hospitals with dedicated HF outpatient clinic in the Netherlands can participate.

Data: aggregated data

Intervention: none / no

Main study parameters/endpoints: The main parameters of quality of HF care are the adherence to guideline recommendation in terms of percentage (%) drug prescription, percentage (%) target dose (order, speed) and reason not to adhere to the guideline (intolerance, side-effects, maximum tolerated dose). The main endpoints for prognosis are the number of HF related hospitalizations and all-cause mortality during follow-up.

Nature and extent of the burden and risks associated with participation, benefit and group relatedness: There is no risk in participation, no intervention and no active involvement of patients for specific activities in the study. The project is a registration of care as given (standard care) to the participating subject with heart failure.

Conditions

Heart Failure

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

Chronic heart failure

Patients with chronic HF at least 6 months after the initial HF diagnosis with are in stable condition, treated with HF medication (not necessarily all GDMT) and evaluated for an intrinsic cardiac defibrillator device if applicable.

no intervention, observational study

Intervention Type: OTHER

no intervention, observational registry of the prescription of medical therapy according to the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure guidelines (quality of care).

Worsening heart failure

Patient with established chronic heart failure which after a period of "stable" HF have experienced an hospital admission with necessity of iv. diuretics or urgent visit needing iv. diuretics. Patients can be included in inpatient / admitted setting or outpatient setting where drug changes during admission (GDMT uptitration) can be recorded. The index event of hospitalisation must be within 6 months prior to inclusion in the registry (retrospective).

no intervention, observational study

Intervention Type: OTHER

no intervention, observational registry of the prescription of medical therapy according to the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure guidelines (quality of care).

de novo heart failure

Patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (ejection fraction \<40% with diagnosis within 3 months of inclusion (de novo heart failure or newly-diagnosed HF) with no previous diagnosis of HF.

no intervention, observational study

Intervention Type: OTHER

no intervention, observational registry of the prescription of medical therapy according to the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure guidelines (quality of care).

Interventions

no intervention, observational study

no intervention, observational registry of the prescription of medical therapy according to the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure guidelines (quality of care).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

In order to be eligible to participate in this registry, a subject must meet all of the following criteria:

1. Written informed consent obtained from subject aged ≥18 years.

2. Diagnosis of heart failure according to the European Society of Cardiology 2021 guideline definitions. An eligible patient must also fulfil to the category definitions of de novo HF, chronic HF or worsening HF.

3. Subjects willing and able to comply with the follow-up of regular care at the outpatient clinic. Also, sites should continue regular care for an included subject for at least 1 year (with preferably the entire project) at their outpatient HF clinic in this quality of care project.

Informed Consent: As the current research is a patient file study (registry) without an intervention of any kind. The medical ethics review board has reviewed the study and the study is declared to be not subject to the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act. Although informed consent is not strictly necessary, we have decided to ask permission from the patient use to their data for scientific research and comply to privacy/general data protection regulations for scientific research as well as to consent with data-coupling with other official data sources for quality of care projects in the Netherlands.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Subjects with a life expectancy <1 years due to comorbidities according to the treating physician.

2. Subjects who have had a major cardiovascular event (e.g., myocardial infarction, open heart surgery, stroke) within 2 months interacting with prescription or dosing of HF drugs.

3. Subjects with advanced heart failure (end-stage) scheduled for or likely to undergo heart-transplantation or ventricular assist device within 6 months of baseline visit.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Netherlands Heart Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Erasmus Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Jasper Brugts MD PhD

Principal investigator, Dr.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Rudolf de Boer

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Erasmus Medical Center

Locations

Erasmus MC

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Countries

Netherlands

References

Clephas PRD, Malgie J, Schaap J, Koudstaal S, Emans M, Linssen GCM, de Boer GA, van Heerebeek L, Borleffs CJW, Manintveld OC, van Empel V, van Wijk S, van den Heuvel M, da Fonseca C, Damman K, van Ramshorst J, van Kimmenade R, van de Ven ART, Tio RA, van Veghel D, Asselbergs FW, de Boer RA, van der Meer P, Greene SJ, Brunner-La Rocca HP, Brugts JJ. Guideline implementation, drug sequencing, and quality of care in heart failure: design and rationale of TITRATE-HF. ESC Heart Fail. 2024 Feb;11(1):550-559. doi: 10.1002/ehf2.14604. Epub 2023 Dec 8.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 38064176 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

MEC-2022-0252

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id