Improvement of primary care for patients with chronic heart failure: comparing two strategies.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic heart failure in primary care; Circulatory System; Heart failure

• Registration Number: ISRCTN18812755
• Lead Sponsor: Stichting Robuust (Netherlands)

Brief Summary

2011 protocol https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21439047/ (added 18/12/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2010-07-16
• Study Completion: 2011-11-01
• Last Update Posted: 5 January 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 600

Inclusion Criteria

The study population will consist of 60 general practitioners (GPs) recruited in the south of the Netherlands. GPs will be contacted either direct or indirect via various regional organisations by advisors of the regional supportive structures for primary care.
GPs will include those chronic heart failure patients from their practices of whom the GPs consider themselves to be the physician taking care of the treatment of this condition in the patient, expecting 8 to 10 patients per practice.

Exclusion Criteria

1. GPs: None
2. Patients:
2.1. Those exclusively experiencing secondary care for their chronic heart failure
2.2. < 18 years of age

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified