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Decompensated CirrhosisCirrhoCareNCT06223893

CirrhoCare- Using Smart-phone Technology to Enhance Care and Access to Treatment for Cirrhosis

A study testing CirrhoCare management system in people with Decompensated Cirrhosis, run by University College, London at 15 sites in United Kingdom.

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Sites and contacts
Official record
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Trial summary

The CirrhoCare trial is a multi-centre, open label randomised controlled trial in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. The trial aims to investigate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of CirrhoCare digital home monitoring and management with current standard of care in these patients. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Decompensated Cirrhosis
What is being tested?
CirrhoCare management system
Type of treatment
Medical device
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
214 participants
Where
15 sitesUnited Kingdom
Study dates
24 Nov 2023to 31 Jan 2027
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Adults ≥ 18 years and diagnosed with cirrhosis of any aetiology.
  • Cirrhosis defined by standard clinical criteria, ultrasonographic findings and/or histology. Cirrhosis of any aetiology may be included. However, participants with cirrhosis due to autoimmune hepatitis must be on a stable corticosteroid dose for ≥3-month period before study inclusion (to be recorded on concomitant log).
  • Cirrhosis severity-risk defined by European-Foundation Consortium Liver Failure - Acute Decompensation score (CLIF-C AD score) ≥42 points but ≤65 points at the time of screening.
  • Hospitalisation for acute decompensation [determined as one or more of the following: increasing ascites, variceal haemorrhage, overt hepatic encephalopathy, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) or hepatorenal syndrome - acute kidney injury (HRS-AKI)].
  • Participants able to give informed consent.

Who cannot join

  • Participants with ACLF grade 2 and above according to the criteria published by Moreau
  • Participants with CLIF-C AD score ≥ 66, who have a high mortality similar to ACLF ≥2 participants.
  • Current overt hepatic encephalopathy, defined as grade II-IV hepatic encephalopathy according to the West-Haven classification, unable to give consent.
  • Participants with active hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or history of HCC that is in remission for less than six months for uninodular HCC or for less than 12 months for multinodular HCC within Milan criteria.
  • Participants with a history of significant extra hepatic disease with impaired short-term prognosis, including congestive heart failure New York Heart Association Grade III/IV, COPD GOLD >2, chronic kidney disease with serum creatinine >2mg/dL or under renal replacement therapy.
  • Participants with documented refractory ascites on a palliative pathway.
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  • Participants who are active on the transplant waiting list.
  • Participants with current extra hepatic malignancies including solid tumours and hematologic disorders.
  • Participants with mental incapacity, significant language barriers, or any other reason considered by the investigator precluding adequate understanding, cooperation or compliance in the study.
  • Participants with active viral infections, or yet to achieve clear response to anti-viral therapy.
  • Any disorders likely to impact on study engagement, including severe frailty, severe addiction history (including opioids) with evidence of multiple recent relapses.
  • Any other reason that the PI considers would make the participant unsuitable to enter CirrhoCare (e.g., participants on an end-of-life palliative care pathway).
  • Participants enrolled in other interventional trials.

Trial locations and contacts

15 sites in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Tasheeka Jeyapalan contact

+4402076704687

cctu.cirrhocare@ucl.ac.uk

15 sites in 1 country

United Kingdom15 sites, 15 recruiting
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

    Birmingham, B15 2GW

    Neil Rajoriya, Neil.Rajoriya@uhb.nhs.uk

    Neil Rajoriya

    Recruiting
  • Royal Sussex County Hospital, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

    Brighton, BN2 5BE

    Lucia Macken, lucia.macken@nhs.net

    Lucia Macken

    Recruiting
  • Walsgrave General Hospital, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust

    Coventry, CV2 2DX

    Sophia Than, sophia.than@uhcw.nhs.uk

    Sophia Than

    Recruiting
  • Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Liverpool, L7 8YE

    Omar Elshaarawy, Omar.Elshaarawy@liverpoolft.nhs.uk

    Omar Elshaarawy

    Recruiting
  • The Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust

    London, E1 1FR

    Vikram Sharma, vikram.sharma1@nhs.net

    Vikram Sharma

    Recruiting
  • Whittington Hospital, Whittington Health NHS Trust

    London, N19 5NF

    Evangelia Fatourou, evangelia.fatourou@nhs.net

    Evangelia Fatourou

    Recruiting
  • Royal Free Hospital, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

    London, NW3 2QG

    Rajeshwar Mookerjee, r.mookerjee@ucl.ac.uk

    Rajeshwar Mookerjee

    Recruiting
  • St Thomas Hospital, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    London, SE1 7EH

    Giovanni Tritto, Giovanni.Tritto@gstt.nhs.uk

    Giovanni Tritto

    Not yet recruiting
  • King's College Hospital, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    London, SE5 9RS

    Vishal Patel, vishal.patel@researchinliver.org.uk

    Vishal Patel

    Recruiting
  • St George's Hospital, St George's university Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    London, SW17 0QT

    Daniel Fortan, daniel.forton@nhs.net

    Daniel Fortan, Prof

    Recruiting
  • Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

    Nottingham, NG7 2UH

    Naaventhan Palaniyappan, Naaventhan.Palaniyappan@nottingham.ac.uk

    Naaventhan Palaniyappan

    Recruiting
  • John Radcliff Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Oxford, OX3 9DU

    Jeremy Cobbold, Jeremy.Cobbold@ouh.nhs.uk

    Jeremy Cobbold

    Recruiting
  • Derriford Hospital, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

    Plymouth, PL6 8DH

    Ashwin Dhanda, ashwin.dhanda@nhs.net

    Ashwin Dhanda

    Recruiting
  • Southampton General Hospital, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

    Southampton, SO16 6YD

    Mark Wright, mark.wright@uhs.nhs.uk

    Mark Wright

    Recruiting
  • Torbay Hospital, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

    Torquay, TQ2 7AA

    James Neale, jamesneale@nhs.net

    James Neale

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: CirrhoCare, A Real-world, Randomised Controlled Study, to Determine the Clinical and Cost-effectiveness of CirrhoCare Digital Home Monitoring and Management in Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis

The CirrhoCare trial is a multi-centre, open label randomised controlled trial in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. The trial aims to investigate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of CirrhoCare digital home monitoring and management with current standard of care in these patients.

Read the detailed description

Cirrhosis, progressive scaring of the liver- has many causes, principally, excessive alcohol intake, fatty-liver and viral infections. Unlike many chronic diseases, cirrhosis deaths are increasing rapidly year-on-year. It is the third commonest cause of premature, UK working-age deaths, with 62,000 years of working-life lost each year and NHS care costs of £4.53bn annually. One quarter of all UK cirrhosis patients are at-risk of acute decompensation, whereby complications such as fluid-overload, confusion and infections arise, requiring hospital-emergency treatment.

Currently, decompensated cirrhosis patients require regular hospital clinical assessments to detect these new complications. Even following hospital discharge, readmission with new decompensating complications approaches 37% in 4 weeks. This disease burden, compounded by increasing alcohol and obesity-driven liver disease, means demand for specialist liver services outweighs current capacity in a resource-stretched healthcare system. Moreover, regional variation of specialist liver services also impacts on illness and deaths, leading to a postcode lottery of care access and geographical inequity.

The CirrhoCare trial, addresses this urgent clinical-need through an innovative cirrhosis management system, including home-monitoring of decompensated cirrhosis patients, measuring vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure (using low cost, sensing technology), assessing weight (smart-scale) and mental ability (smartphone app), all of which are impacted as cirrhosis progresses. By efficiently and securely collecting data on CyberLiver's management-system (platform), CirrhoCare provides a decision-facilitating tool, incorporating individual-patient data, helping liver-physicians to optimise and personalise treatment in the community.

The CirrhoCare trial investigators also plan to assess clinical and cost effectiveness of CirrhoCare management and seek regulatory approvals. This innovative aspect of cirrhosis management will be more acceptable and convenient for patients. It will also deliver community care with environmental, sustainable benefits, through reduced hospital visits, despite increasing service demands. The cost- effectiveness analysis will generate value-for-money evidence of CirrhoCare management, and the clinical evidence needed to inform future adoption into the NHS.

Being tested
CirrhoCare management system

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • CirrhoCare management systemDevice

    This is a UKCA-marked, digital-therapeutic system consisting of:

    • clinical-grade, cirrhosis monitoring sensors and a smartphone app,
    • a clinical team-facing, decision-facilitating dashboard, and
    • CyberLiver's platform incorporating hepatic algorithms.

    The CirrhoCare kit consists of: - Apple watch - iPhone with an in-built CirrhoCare app - a digital Bluetooth-linked system comprised of: ~Wellue BP monitor, ~Wellue weighing scale ~Bluetooth thermometer.

    The CirrhoCare management system also includes:

    • The clinician dashboard: All participant data collected through the app will be reviewed by the clinical team via the clinician dashboard.
    • The CirrhoCare algorithm: This algorithm will advise the clinical team if the participant is at high, medium, or low risk of developing a particular outcome event, based on monitoring data collected each day from the participant which is compared to the baseline values and average values collected over the first week of monitoring.
Study groups in NCT06223893
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
CirrhoCare management systemOtherNot described
Receives: Device: CirrhoCare management system
Standard of CareNo interventionNot described

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number of hospital interventions from new-liver related complications

    The CirrhoCare trial will investigate whether the CirrhoCare management system leads to a reduction in the requirement for unplanned medical intervention from new-liver related complications over 90 days from hospital discharge.

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

Secondary outcomes (13)
  1. Effects on CLIF-C AD score

    To determine the effects of the CirrhoCare management system on the Chronic Liver Failure Consortium Acute Decompensation (CLIF-C AD) score. [Minimum score is 0 and there is no upper limit. The higher the score the worse the outcome)

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  2. Effects on MELD score

    To determine the effects of the CirrhoCare management system on the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score ( MELD). [Score ranges from 6-40. The higher the score the worse the outcome]

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  3. To determine the effects of the CirrhoCare management system on the number of liver-related deaths at 90 days

    To determine the effects of the CirrhoCare management system on the number of liver-related deaths at 90 days.

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  4. Healthcare resource use analysis

    To assess healthcare resource use through analysis of the number of healthcare appointments during the study period

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  5. Healthcare cost analysis

    To assess the financial costs associated with healthcare interventions during the study period (measured in British Pound Sterling).

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  6. User experience and engagement

    To assess user experience and engagement through questionnaires and interviews : The questionnaires will be graded from 1-10 for each question, with 0 is extremely negative as a response, and 10 very highly positive response.

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  7. Quality of Life (EQ-5D-5L) assessment

    To assess health-related quality of Life through the EuroQol 5-Dimension 5-Level (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire. The score ranges from -0.59 to 1, with a score of 1 representing the best possible health status.

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  8. Frailty assessment

    To assess frailty using the Liver Frailty Index. The score ranges from 1.0 to 7.0 with higher scores representing increased levels of frailty.

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  9. Mortality

    To assess mortality (overall survival)

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  10. Number of hospital readmissions

    To assess the overall number of readmissions to hospital

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  11. Effects of the individual components making up the primary outcome

    Assessment of the effects of the individual components making up the primary outcome. Each complication of cirrhosis will be individually assessed between CirrhoCare and standard of care groups. [Ascites based on Gr 1-3 and HE based on West Haven criteria 1-4; Infection Positive or Negative culture]

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

  12. Longitudinal effects of all secondary outcomes

    The longitudinal effects of all secondary outcomes will be investigated by using an appropriate model that incorporates the Day 28 and Day 56 visits in addition to the Day 90 visit

    Measured: Day 28, Day 56, Day 90

  13. Length of hospital readmissions

    Assessment of the length of stay for each hospital readmission for a given participant recorded in days.

    Measured: 90 days from randomisation

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted25 Jan 2024
  2. Study start24 Nov 2023
  3. Primary completion31 Oct 2026 (estimated)
  4. Study completion31 Jan 2027 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
Participants will be randomised 1:1 to receive either the standard of care or the CirrhoCare management system.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
214 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06223893
Sponsor's protocol ID
151197
Acronym
CirrhoCare
Status last verified
Apr 2026
First submitted
31 Oct 2023
Last updated
7 May 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing CirrhoCare management system in people with Decompensated Cirrhosis, run by University College, London at 15 sites in United Kingdom.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 13 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 7 May 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 15 sites in United Kingdom. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Tasheeka Jeyapalan (+4402076704687, cctu.cirrhocare@ucl.ac.uk), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number of hospital interventions from new-liver related complications (time frame: 90 days from randomisation). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 7 May 2026.

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