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Strategies to Improve Prescribing in Heart Failure Patients

NCT01023438 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2018-06-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to assess whether primary care physicians may uptitrate recommended drug therapies in stable heart failure patients if educational material and specialist support including phone or mail consultation are provided

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Strategy for assisted uptitration

Active specialist support (mail, phone) and educational material provided to assist primary care physicians in drug uptitration

OTHER

Usual care

Usual communication strategy from cardiologist to primary care physician: uptitration advised but no active support nor educational material provided

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri

    collaborator OTHER

  • Niguarda Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Andrea Di Lenarda, MD · Cardiovascular Center ASS 1 Triestina, Trieste Italy

  • Fabrizio Oliva, MD · Heart Failure Heart Transplant Program, Cardiovascular Department, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-04-30
Completion
2017-04-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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