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Brazilian Intervention to Increase Evidence Usage in Practice - Acute Coronary Syndromes

NCT00958958 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1150

Last updated 2012-02-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Phase 1: An observational study (registry) will be conducted which will objectively document the ACS clinical practice in Brazilian public hospitals, and identify the important barriers for the evidence usage incorporation in the clinical practice.

Phase 2: A Cluster randomized clinical trial in which public hospital will be randomized to receive or not a multifaceted strategy in order to increase evidence based therapy in clinical practice.

Conditions

  • Acute Coronary Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

multifaceted strategy

There are multifaceted Interventions Including 1. Distribution of educational materials: distribution of published or printed recommendations for clinical care. 2. Case manager: Use of a trained person who works in the hospital and will be responsible to assure that all interventions were used 3. Reminders 4. Practical training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministry of Health, Brazil

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Hospital do Coracao

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Otávio Berwanger, PhD · Hospital do Coracao

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-02-29
Completion
2012-02-29

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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