Educational outreach, rapid open-access echocardiography and selected rapid consultant access for suspected heart failure in primary care

Completed

• Conditions: Circulatory System; Cardiovascular diseases: Heart disease; Heart disease

• Registration Number: ISRCTN84389328
• Lead Sponsor: HS R&D Regional Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2004-01-23
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

GPs, general physicians, geriatricians and cardiologists in County Durham and Teesside.
Patients presenting to primary care with suspected heart failure.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided at time of registration

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Survey of diagnostic facilities.<br>2. Qualitative data on current practice, decision making and perceived barriers to diagnosis and management of suspected heart failure <br>3. An integrated care scheme for patients with suspected heart failure (outcomes to be measured will include diagnostic rates, appropriate treatment, quality of life, quality of symptom control, rates of hospital referral, rates of hospitalisation and economic costs) <br>4. An 'academic detailing' programme for training GPs to manage heart failure

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
ot provided at time of registration