A Mobile Health Intervention Supporting Heart Failure Patients and Their Informal Caregivers: A Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial

John D Piette   ¹ , PhD ;   Dana Striplin   ¹ , MHSA ;   Nicolle Marinec   ¹ , MPH ;   Jenny Chen   ¹ , MPH ;   Ranak B Trivedi   ² , PhD ;   David C Aron   ³ , MD, MS ;   Lawrence Fisher   ⁴ , PhD ;   James E Aikens   ⁵ , PhD

¹ Center for Clinical Management Research and Center for Managing Chronic Disease, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

² Center for Innovation to Implementation and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States

³ Louis Stokes VA Cleveland Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States

⁴ Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁵ Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States