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"Hub and Satellite" Heart Failure Provider's Network Study

NCT01246050 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 6

Last updated 2019-10-30

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Summary

The aim of this study is to serve as a pilot showing the feasibility of a "Hub and Satellite" Heart Failure (HF) Provider's Network which will aim to provide improved, evidence-based care to Veterans with HF. Primary Care Providers in the VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) will undergo a brief period of intensive training in HF management and then practice in a network of primary care providers supported by the Regional HF Center.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

HF training

These are CBOC Providers who received HF Training as the active intervention. HF training includes didactic lectures, case discussions and interactive symposia, course materials including teaching material, textbooks, copies of HF clinical guidelines and patient education material for distribution, participation in HF Clinics and Inpatient Heart Failure Rounds. Providers were given access to clinical pharmacist services Including medication and disease teaching, adjustment and uptitration. There was quarterly analysis of patient compliance including individualized confidential, non-punitive feedback to providers from a set of prespecified core HF performance measures.

OTHER

No HF training

These are control providers drawn from the same CBOCs who have not received HF training, access to clinical pharmacist medication titration services or performance feedback

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Henry H Ooi, MD · VA Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-05-31
Primary Completion
2011-05-31
Completion
2011-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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