Medically Tailored Meals / Heart Failure · Interventional Study

Pilot Study Exploring the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Impact of Medically Tailored Meals on Post-Discharge Recovery in Patients With Heart Failure

ClinicalTrials.gov · August 17, 2026

Preliminary Why this matters to you Expert discussion

Early or partial results. Treat as a signal, not a conclusion.

AI Summary

This is a registered pilot study designed to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of medically tailored meals in post-discharge heart failure patients. No results have been posted in this registry record; the study is currently enrolling by invitation at two Penn Medicine sites.

What was studied

Interventional, Single Group, Open label, Health Services Research purpose. Heart Failure; age from 18 Years. Intervention: Medically Tailored Meals. n = 85. 1 site: United States.

Key findings

Safety

Primary outcomes are feasibility and acceptability (process measures), not clinical hard endpoints such as readmission or mortality.

Who this may help

Clinicians should not use this record to guide practice: no results are available. When published, findings will inform feasibility and patient acceptability of medically tailored meals as a post-discharge intervention, potentially supporting design of future efficacy trials.

Plain-language summary

This is a registered pilot study with no posted results, designed to assess feasibility and acceptability of an intervention in heart failure patients; it is early-phase work intended to inform future trials.

Study design

As stated by the source record.

MethodsPrimary outcome measures: Feasibility of the MTM intervention (assessed at From enrollment to the end of the intervention at 4 weeks for Pilot 1); Acceptability of the MTM intervention as measured by the Net Promoter Score (assessed at At the end of the intervention at 4 weeks for Pilot 1.)

DesignInterventional, Single Group, Open label, Health Services Research purpose

PopulationHeart Failure; age from 18 Years

Sample size85

InterventionMedically Tailored Meals

Setting1 site: United States

Reported figures

Quoted from the source exactly as published.

Estimated enrollment85

Primary outcome measure 1Feasibility of the MTM intervention, assessed from enrollment to end of intervention at 4 weeks

Primary outcome measure 2Acceptability of the MTM intervention as measured by the Net Promoter Score, assessed at end of intervention at 4 weeks

Clinical bottom line

Caveats

This is a registry record with no results posted; outcomes have not been assessed or reported.
Pilot design with single arm and no comparator; not powered to detect clinical benefit.
Primary outcomes are feasibility and acceptability (process measures), not clinical hard endpoints such as readmission or mortality.
Enrollment is by invitation only; generalisability to broader heart failure populations is unknown.

Evidence assessment

Graded across the dimensions that decide whether you should act, each from what the source actually supports. There is no single score, and where a dimension was not assessed it says so.

Study design

moderate

Interventional pilot study with defined primary outcomes (feasibility, acceptability) and 4-week follow-up.

Directness

moderate

Directly addresses post-discharge recovery in heart failure; outcomes are process measures, not clinical hard endpoints.

Consistency

insufficient

Single-arm pilot; no comparator group; no results yet reported in this registry record.

Risk of bias

insufficient

No blinding, randomisation, or comparator described; pilot design and no results posted limit bias assessment.

Sample adequacy

limited

Estimated enrollment 85 participants; pilot-scale sample not powered for clinical outcomes.

What is missing. This record has no key findings. That is a gap in the analysis, not a judgement about the study.

Source abstract

Registry record from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT07251894). This is a study registration, not published results. Lead sponsor: University of Pennsylvania. Recruitment status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION. Phase: NA. Study type: INTERVENTIONAL. Enrollment: 85 participants (ESTIMATED). Conditions: Heart Failure. Interventions: OTHER: Medically Tailored Meals. Primary outcome measures: Feasibility of the MTM intervention , From enrollment to the end of the intervention at 4 weeks for Pilot 1; Acceptability of the MTM intervention as measured by the Net Promoter Score , At the end of the intervention at 4 weeks for Pilot 1.. Brief summary: The goal of this interventional pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of medically tailored meals (MTM) on post-discharge recovery in patients with heart failure for Penn Medicine patients in Philadelphia and Lancaster through two pilots.

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NCT07251894Medically Tailored MealsHeart FailureUniversity of Pennsylvania