Plain-English translation of NCT06942221 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗ · Source last updated · Translation generated · How we translate trials
This study doesn't follow the usual testing phases — it may be an observational study or a different type of research.
The DIGNITY trial is testing a new way to help people who have just left the hospital for heart failure. After discharge, you would use a smartphone app to answer daily health questions and receive regular phone calls from a heart failure team. The goal is to help you safely increase your heart failure medications to the doses that research shows work best.
Many heart failure patients don't reach the best doses of their medications fast enough after leaving the hospital, which increases the risk of returning to the hospital or getting sicker. This trial is testing whether remote monitoring using an app and phone calls can help patients get to the right medication doses more safely and quickly than usual office visits alone.
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If you are assigned to the telemedicine group, you would use a smartphone app to answer questions about your heart failure symptoms daily. A specialized heart failure team would review your responses and call you about 1 week after you leave the hospital, then every 7–10 days after that to discuss adjusting your medications to the right doses. If you are in the usual care group, you would receive standard follow-up care as normally provided in your area. The study will monitor your health and medication progress over time.
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Switzerland
Sponsor
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Enrollment target
~140 participants
Started
July 2025
Primary completion
December 2026
Age range
18 Years and older
Last updated on clinicaltrials.gov in December 2025.
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Central contact
Qian Zhou, Prof. MD
Universitätsspital Basel
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