NCT04129658Completed
Heart Failure in Southern Sweden
Heart Failure in Southern Sweden - Improving the Quality of Diagnosis and Treatment Through a Educational Intervention in Primary Care
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Feb 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The aim of the study is to optimize diagnosis and treatment for patients with heart failure in Swedish primary care. Patient with the diagnose heart failure registered in the electronic medical record (EMR) at seventeen primary health care centers (PHCCs) will be invited to to participate in the study. Blood testing and electrocardiography will be performed. Data on diagnosis and medical treatment will be collected from the EMR. An educational visit with a cardiologist will be performed at the PHCC, in order to discuss evidence-based diagnoses and treatment of heart failure. Data on drug therapy and health care consumption will be collected after six and twelve months.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 563 (actual)
- First submitted
- 15 Oct 2019
- Start date
- 26 May 2021
- Primary completion date
- 31 Jan 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Region Skane
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT04129658
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 563
- From 26 May 2021 to the primary completion date, 31 Jan 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- patients where the heart failure diagnose is set on wrong grounds according to the information in the electronic medical journal, as normal NT-proBNP or/and normal ecocardiogram.
Other
- patients with ICD diagnose I42.1, I42.2
Who the study is looking for
- patients with ICD diagnose I50, I11.0, I42 and I43 in the electronic medical journal and who have left informed consent to participate in the study
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vårdcentralen Granen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Malmö | Sweden | Unknown status |
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