Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Heart Failure: "Hospital at Home" Versus Inpatient Care for Elderly Patients. A Randomized, Controlled Trial.
Brief Summary: Aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of hospital-at-home treatment compared with inpatient care in selected elderly patients with acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure (CHF).


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* According with the stroke diagnosis of Traditional Chinese Medicine
* According to atherosclerotic thrombotic cerebral infarction from Western diagnosis such as medical history and CT / MRI examinations
* It has attacked in 7 days
* The assessment of scale of NIHSS:4-24 points
* Age: ≥ 35 years and ≤ 75 years
* Patients or their legal guardians sign informed consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

* The patients with ICH or cerebral hemorrhage or TIA
* It has attacked beyond 7 days
* Patients with stroke history and the mRS ≥ 2 points before this attack
* Mixed type of stroke (infarction after bleeding or bleeding after infarction)
* Patients with cerebral infarction by cardiogenic embolism, blood hypercoagulable state and tunica intima exfoliating
* Patients with serious heart disease;failure of heart or liver or kidney; cancer;digestive tract bleeding
* Women of pregnancy or breast-feeding
* Patients who are taking part in other clinical trials that will influence the results of this study
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* An acute cerebrovascular event (ischemic stroke or intra-cerebral bleeding (ICB)) with the signs and symptoms of an acute stroke according to the World Health Organisation definition of acute stroke14 within the last 12 hours without the need or possibility of a neurosurgical intervention
* No thrombolytic therapy within the first 3 hours (in order to allow the correct comparison with the Swiss cohort of the IST trial
* The informed consent of the patient or, if not possible, of the relatives
* Living at home before the event
* Lack of participation in another trial.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Thrombolytic therapy within the first 3 hours (in order to allow the correct comparison with the Swiss cohort of the IST trial
* No informed consent of the patient or, if not possible, of the relatives
* Not living at home before the event
* Participation in another trial (26 patients were excluded because of TIA with full recovery within 24 hours after the event)
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure,
* Age over 75,
* Appropriate care supervision at home,
* Telephone connection,
* Living in the hospital-at-home catchment area and informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Absence of family and social support;
* Patients who need mechanical ventilation,
* Severe dementia,
* End-stage cancer,
* History of severe renal impairment or hepatic failure with ascitis.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Resides within either a 5-mile or 20 minute driving radius of emergency department
* Has capacity to consent to study OR can assent to study and has proxy who can consent
* \>= 18 years-old
* Can identify a potential caregiver who agrees to stay with patient for first 24 hours of admission. Caregiver must be competent to call care team if a problem is evident to her/him. After 24 hours, this caregiver should be available for as-needed spot checks on the patient. This criterion may be waived for highly competent patients at the patient and clinician's discretion.
* Primary or possible diagnosis of cellulitis, heart failure, complicated urinary tract infection, pneumonia, COPD/asthma, other infection, chronic kidney disease, malignant pain, diabetes and its complications, gout flare, hypertensive urgency, previously diagnosed atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response, anticoagulation needs, or a patient who desires only medical management that requires inpatient admission, as determined by the emergency room team.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Undomiciled
* No working heat (October-April), no working air conditioning if forecast \> 80°F (June-September), or no running water
* On methadone requiring daily pickup of medication
* In police custody
* Resides in facility that provides on-site medical care (e.g., skilled nursing facility)
* Domestic violence screen positive
* Acute delirium, as determined by the Confusion Assessment Method
* Cannot establish peripheral access in emergency department (or access requires ultrasound guidance)
* Secondary condition: end-stage renal disease, acute myocardial infarction, acute cerebral vascular accident, acute hemorrhage
* Primary diagnosis requires multiple or routine administrations of intravenous narcotics for pain control
* Cannot independently ambulate to bedside commode
* As deemed by on-call medical doctor, patient likely to require any of the following procedures: computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, endoscopic procedure, blood transfusion, cardiac stress test, or surgery
* High risk for clinical deterioration
* Home hospital census is full (maximum 5 patients at any time)

Answer: C