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Study of the Effectiveness of Report Cards on the Quality of Care for Heart Attack and Heart Failure Patients

NCT00187460 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 46000

Last updated 2009-12-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Randomized cluster trial of cardiac report cards for AMI and CHF. 103 acute care Ontario hospitals/85 hospital corporations participating, randomized to two groups: Group A Early Feedback and Group B Delayed Feedback.

Two phases of retrospective chart review of AMI and CHF separations to assess the impact of the public release of hospital specific performance on a set of Canadian quality indicators.

Conditions

  • Acute Myocardial Infarction
  • Congestive Heart Failure

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Publicly released hospital cardiac report cards

Participating hospital corporations were randomized to either early feedback or delayed feedback (21 months later) in the form of publicly released hospital report cards of performance on a set of cardiac process-of-care quality indicators.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jack V Tu, MD PhD FRCPC · Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2001-11-30
Primary Completion
2009-03-31
Completion
2009-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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