Treatment of Cardiovascular Risk in Primary Care with Electronic Decision Support- The TORPEDO study.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors; Diabetes; Chronic kidney disease; Cardiovascular - Coronary heart disease; Stroke - Ischaemic; Renal and Urogenital - Kidney disease

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000478910
• Lead Sponsor: The George Institute for Global Health

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-05-09
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40000

Inclusion Criteria

Health service inclusion criteria: 1. Use of Medical Director or Best Practice for Electronic Health Record management. 2. Exclusive use of these systems to record risk factor information, pathology test results and prescribe medications. Services using 'hybrid' paper and electronic system for these features will not be eligible. 3. Agreement that all GPs and other designated staff are willin g to use the HealthTracker-CVD system. Patient inclusion criteria: 1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 35+ years and all others 45+ years AND 2. Attendance at least 3 times in the previous 24 month period AND at least once in the previous 6 month period

Exclusion Criteria

Patients will be excluded from the study if they do not have an attendence of at least 3 times in the previous 24 month period AND at least once in the previous 6 month period.

Age exclusion - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients age less than 35+ years and non Aboriginal / Torres Strait island age less than 45+ years will not be recruited.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified