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Can Diagnostics and Pharmacological Prescriptions in Patients With Heart Failure be Improved in General Practice?

NCT01476566 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2024-02-09

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Summary

This study will explore the possible effect of a tailored educational intervention towards general practitioners in Norway, in order to improve the quality of treatment for heart failure in general practice.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational intervention

Peer continuous medical education (CME) groups in general practice will be recruited to a cluster randomised educational intervention study. Participating groups will be randomised either to an intervention- or a control group. A multifaceted intervention has been tailored where key components are educational outreach visits (EOV) to the CME-groups, audit, and feedback. Trained GPs will conduct the EOVs during which evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of HF will be presented. A software will be handed out for installation on participants' practice computers, enabling collection of diagnosis- and prescription-data. The captured data will subsequently be linked to corresponding data from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oslo

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-01-31
Completion
2013-01-31

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