Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Design, Characteristics, and Implementation of the Financial Support for Low-Income Patients with Heart Failure Trial
Study context
- Population
- Adults hospitalized for acute heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction with income <130% federal poverty limit and difficulty paying bills with ≥1 additional socioeconomic needrandomized participants, 140 completed 1-month follow-up
- Participants
- 153 adults
- Planned comparison
- Early financial support vs control
- Financial supportn = 76
- Controln = 77
Methodological details1:1 randomization within 14 days of discharge
- 1:1 randomization within 14 days of discharge
No results yet. This paper sets out the design of a trial; its results are to come.
Baseline
Baseline characteristics
- Mean age
- 53 y
- Male
- 76%
- Black
- 73%
- Mean ejection fraction
- 26 ± 9%
- Median monthly income
- $600 (IQR 0-1179)
- Cost-related medication non-adherence at baseline
- 76%
- Identified socioeconomic domain needs, on average
- 5
- Housing instability
- 50%
- Food insecurity
- 85%
- Transportation barriers
- 65%
- Unemployed or retired
- 81%
- Baseline characteristics well balanced between groups except for numerically higher median monthly income and lower mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist/sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor prescription in the financial support group
- The primary clinical outcomes are reported in a companion Brief Report.
Follow-up completeness · 1 month
- Completed 1-month follow-up
- 140
Original publication
Design, Characteristics, and Implementation of the Financial Support for Low-Income Patients with Heart Failure Trial. JACC Adv. Published 16 March 2026. doi:10.
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