Open Access Echocardiography in the Netherlands
- Conditions
- Open Access Echo, Echocardiography, Heart Failure, Valvular Heart Disease, Hypertension, Health Economy
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON21666
- Lead Sponsor
- Atrium medical centre parkstad
- Brief Summary
Easy access echocardiography for the general practitioner: results from the Parkstad Area in the Netherlands. LHB Baur, T. Lenderink, C. Lodewijks, L. Veenstra, R. Winkens. Int. J. Cardiac. Imaging. 2006: 22: 19-25. <br> - Open access echocardiography is feasible in the Netherlands L.H.B. Baur, L. Veenstra , T. Lenderink, C.L.B. Lodewijks - van der Bolt, R.A.G. Winkens, F.L.M. Soomers, H.E.J.H. Stoffers. Netherlands Heart Journal 2006; 14: 361-365.<br> - The Dutch experience of open access echocardiography. C. L. B. Lodewijks-vd Bolt, LHB Baur, T. Lenderink, F. Guldemond, J. Nijhof, R. Winkens, M. Hundscheid, J. Stoffers On behalf of the working group on open access echocardiography in the Parkstad Area. Netherlands Heart Journal 2007; 15: 342-347.<br> - Vrij toegankelijke echocardiografie is nuttige ondersteuning voor de huisarts. LHB Baur, CLB Lodewijks-vd Bolt, T. Lenderink, HEJH Stoffers, RAG Winkens. Medisch Contact 2007: 42: 1723-1726.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 1500
1. Patients, in whom the general+ practitioner thinks, they need echocardiography, but do not need referral:
- Indications:
1. Patients who are controlled by a cardiologist
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Incidence of pathology, <br /><br>- Differences between age groups, <br /><br>- Diffrences between gender, <br /><br>- Cost-effectiveness
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Health care costs, <br /><br>- Incidence of cardial pathology (heart failure, valvular heart disease) at the general practitioner.