Understanding What Matters Most in Your Heart Health
Improve the Meaning of Patient Reported Outcomes to Evaluate Effectiveness for Cardiac Care" (IMPROVE-Cardiac Care)
This project aims to understand what changes in your symptoms and well-being truly feel meaningful to you if you have a heart condition.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Columbia University Health Sciences NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (New York, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11140549 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
We want to find out what specific improvements in your daily life and symptoms are most important to you when you're living with a heart condition. This involves looking at how patients feel after major events like heart bypass surgery or a hospital stay for heart failure, as well as for those managing heart failure in their daily lives. By understanding these "minimally important differences," we hope to make sure that treatments and care truly make a difference in how you feel.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates include adults aged 21 and older with coronary heart disease recovering from bypass surgery, or heart failure recovering from hospitalization, or those managing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Not a fit: Patients without cardiac conditions or those not interested in sharing their experiences with symptoms and quality of life may not directly benefit from this specific research.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this work could help doctors and patients better understand when a treatment or change in care is truly making a meaningful difference in a patient's life.
How similar studies have performed: While the concept of patient-reported outcomes is established, this specific project aims to define what level of change in these outcomes is truly meaningful to patients, which is a novel and important step.
Where this research is happening
New York, United States
- Columbia University Health Sciences — New York, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Masterson Creber, Ruth Marie — Columbia University Health Sciences
- Study coordinator: Masterson Creber, Ruth Marie
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.