The Heart Failure Adherence and Retention Trial (HART): Design and rationale

The HART trial evaluated the benefit of patient self-management skills training in combination with HF education, over HF education alone, on the composite end points of death/HF hospitalizations and death/all-cause hospitalizations in patients with mild to moderate systolic or diastolic dysfunction.

Abstract

The significance of HART lies in its ability to determine the clinical value of activating the patient to collaborate in his or her care. Support for the trial hypotheses would encourage interdisciplinary HF treatment, drawing on an evidence base not only from medicine but also from behavioral medicine.