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Strategy to Recognize and Initiate Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure

NCT01202006 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 585

Last updated 2015-07-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a structured diagnostic-therapeutic strategy to detect and treat previously unrecognized (or unestablished) heart failure in primary care will improve the functional capacity, quality of care, the quality of life, and eventually the prognosis of these patients.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Training of general practitioners in an uptitration protocol.

The general practitioners randomly allocated to the intervention group will be trained in the practical appliance of the Dutch GP's 'heart failure' guideline. They will receive detailed instructions on initiating diuretics with ACE-inhibitors and uptitration of ACE-inhibitors and beta-blockers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • UMC Utrecht

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Frans H Rutten, MD, PhD · Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary care

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-10-31
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

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