Clinical trials

Heart failure is a common heart condition that often leads to hospital stays and repeat readmissions. When patients leave the hospital, coordinating patient care between the hospital and the local healthcare team (family doctor, nurses, cardiologist) can be difficult, and gaps in this coordination can lead to complications or unnecessary re-hospitalizations. This study, called TEAM-IC, tests a new way of organizing the return home after a hospital stay for heart failure. In this new approach, a dedicated "care coordination nurse" based in a local primary care health center works closely with the patient's usual caregivers and with the hospital team to support the patient during the first three months after discharge. This is compared to the existing standard program (PRADO-IC) currently used in France. Hypothesis: The investigators believe that organizing the return home around a coordinating nurse embedded in a local health center, with support tailored to each patient's level of frailty, will lead to better follow-up and better care for heart failure patients than the current standard program. Before testing whether this approach actually improves health outcomes in a larger trial, this study first aims to find out whether such a program is realistic and workable in practice, for example, whether patients and healthcare professionals are willing to take part, whether the organization runs smoothly, and whether the study procedures can be followed as planned.