AN13--Research Services - GOURMET Meal Trial in Heart Failure - WEST HAVEN | EDA: 3/31/2024

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STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)

1. CONTRACT TITLE.

Meal Vendor, CSP 2025 Geriatric Out-of-hospital Randomized Meal Trial in heart failure: Veterans Affairs (GOURMET-VA)

2. BACKGROUND.

CSP 2025 Geriatric Out-of-hospital Randomized Meal Trial in heart failure: Veterans Affairs (GOURMET-VA) is a research study sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Cooperative Studies Program (CSP). The purpose of this multi-center clinical trial is to study the efficacy and safety of providing nutritional support in addition to the study-defined standard of care (standardized dietary education and a single dietary counseling session shortly after discharge) compared to the study-defined standard of care alone.

The study-provided meals and dietary education/counseling will follow a sodium-restricted Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating pattern, which has been associated with lower heart failure (HF) incidence and greater survival in patients with HF. All participants will receive VA-approved dietary educational material at enrollment, and a single, remotely delivered dietary counseling session during the first week post-discharge. Intervention arm participants will receive home-delivered meals for a period of 6 weeks post-discharge and a total of three remotely delivered dietary counseling sessions.

This study will enroll 1,400 Veteran participants aged 60 years who have been hospitalized ( 24 hours) for new HF or worsening chronic HF at a Veterans Affairs medical facility. Eligible participants need to have dentition, swallowing function, etc. sufficient to safely consume food and liquid of standard composition and texture (pureed meals may be allowable). The exclusion criteria include food allergies or intolerances that cannot be accommodated by study diet; on dialysis or estimated glomerular filtration rate 6.0 mmol/L during index hospitalization; heart transplant or active transplant listing; left ventricular assist device present or anticipated