Triage of Reduced Exercise Tolerance in Frail Elderly (TREE).
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Heart failureChronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseCOPDHartfalenChronisch obstructive longziekte
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON21050
- Lead Sponsor
- MC Utrecht
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 800
Inclusion Criteria
1. Patients aged 65 years and older;
2. Must have a minimum of three chronic or vitality threatening diseases and/or use five or more medical drugs chronically in the last year;
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients with both confirmed COPD and heart failure (lungfunction test performed < 1 year ago and heart failure confirmed by echocardiography);
2. Patients unable or unwilling to sign informed consent.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Prevalence of latent heart failure and COPD;<br /><br>2. Difference in prevalence of latent heart failure and COPD between both groups.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method (Cost-)effectiveness of the diagnostic triage strategy.