Study to Improve the Treatment of Patients With Heart Failure by General Practitioners

NCT ID: NCT01662323

Last Updated: 2012-11-14

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

683 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-06-30

Study Completion Date

2012-06-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether it is possible to improve the care of general practitioners for patients with heart failure. The investigators try to reach that goal by training the GP's for 90 minutes in uptitrating the recommended medication according the guidelines. After 6 month the investigators ask the patients to fill out a questionary. The investigators ask them about their quality of live.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Heart Failure

Keywords

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Heart failure, general practitioner, medical therapy, quality of live

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Caregivers

Study Groups

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Training of the GP's, intervention

General practitioners are trained to diagnose and treat heart failure according the recommendations of the NHG-standard.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

GP's treating HF according the dutch guidelines

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Controle

General practitioners giving care as usual to their heart failure patients.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

GP's treating HF according the dutch guidelines

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Interventions

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GP's treating HF according the dutch guidelines

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Do have a general practitioners diagnosis heart failure mentioned twice in the electronical medical file.

Exclusion Criteria

* Incapacitated patients with a life expectancy of less than 2 months
* Seniles
* Patients who do not speak the Dutch language
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Agis Zorgverzekeringen

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Julius Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Drs. Mark M J Valk

assistant professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

References

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Valk MJ, Hoes AW, Mosterd A, Landman MA, Broekhuizen BD, Rutten FH. Rationale, design and baseline results of the Treatment Optimisation in Primary care of Heart failure in the Utrecht region (TOPHU) study: a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMC Fam Pract. 2015 Oct 7;16:130. doi: 10.1186/s12875-015-0347-1.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 26446696 (View on PubMed)

Valk MJ, Broekhuizen BD, Mosterd A, Zuithoff NP, Hoes AW, Rutten FH. COPD in patients with stable heart failure in the primary care setting. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2015 Jun 26;10:1219-24. doi: 10.2147/COPD.S77085. eCollection 2015.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 26170650 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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TOPHU01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id