Mudge ongoing

Trial name or title	The Exercise Joins Education: Combined Therapy to Improve Outcomes in Newly‐discharged Heart Failure (EJECTION‐HF)
Methods	RCT
Participants	350 recently hospitalised people with HF with impaired and preserved left ventricular systolic function
Interventions	Supervised exercise training programme and disease management programme vs. disease management programme alone
Outcomes	Primary outcome proportion of participants who have died or been re‐admitted for any cause within 12 months of enrolment Secondary outcomes at 6 and 12 months Depressive symptoms measured using the Geriatric Depression Scale and the Hare‐Davis Cardiac Depression Scale Functional status measured using a standardised 6‐min walk test, hand‐held dynamometry as a measure of grip strength and activities of daily living using standardised questions Cognitive status using Folstein's Mini‐Mental Status Examination Quality of life using the Assessment of Quality of Life instrument Sleep quality using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (in a subset of participants) Healthcare use including hospital admissions and outpatient and emergency department attendances obtained from the hospital information systems
Starting date	Not reported (150 recruited at time of publication) "Enrolment will be completed in 2013"
Contact information	Corresponding author: telephone: +61 7 36360854, fax: +61 7 36360272, Email: Alison_Mudge@health.qld.gov.au Internal Medicine and Aged Care, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Butterfield St, Herston, Queensland 4029 Australia
Notes	Trial completed recruiting. Publication of primary outcomes expected in late 2014 (author email reply 29 July 2013)