RENAL-HF: Care pathway co-design (WP2 Stages 1-6)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Co-creation of a care pathway for implementing personalised renal function monitoring & interventions for people with heart failure
IRAS ID
316009
Contact name
Munir Pirmohamed
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Liverpool
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 11 months, 31 days
Research summary
Modern treatments help people with heart failure to live longer, healthier lives, however they remain at risk of kidney problems. Potentially this is preventable through regular renal function monitoring and adjustment of medicine dose and/or type to maintain optimal heart and kidney functioning. However, there are no clear clinical guidelines on when this checking should be carried out and what to do following the test result.
Work package 2 (WP2), stages 1-5, forms part of a programme of research called the RENAL-HF Project, which aims to i) develop technology to predict how often each person with heart failure needs a kidney blood test and ii) inform the development of expert advice for GPs and nurses on how best to adjust medication. This work aims to ensure that the technology-informed pathway is acceptable to patients and professionals and will include
• Surveys and interviews with primary care staff to understand practice and identify barriers and enablers to kidney function monitoring of patients with heart failure (stage 1)
• Combining learning from WP1 and WP2 to create a list of proposals to help improve guidelines for monitoring renal monitoring for people with heart failure. To hold consensus workshops with key stakeholder groups to discuss and vote on these proposals to decide which ones are the most important (stage 2)
• To develop training materials to support professionals in using these new proposals in practice (stages 3 and 4)
• To invite a group of professionals to test prototype training material in a ‘dummy environment’ to ensure they are happy with how it works and that the instructions are clear and easy to use (stage 5)Information from stages 1-5 will be used to help improve the care pathway before feasibility/acceptably testing in stage 6 (which will be submitted as a separate application).
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Sheffield Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/YH/0222
Date of REC Opinion
12 Oct 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion