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Shared Care Rehabilitation After Acute Coronary Syndrome

NCT01522001 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 212

Last updated 2015-05-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Cardiac rehabilitation is an individual adapted multidisciplinary intervention for people suffering from Heart Disease. It involves;

* Dietary counseling,
* Exercise training,
* Psychosocial support,
* Physician
* smoking cessation
* Patient education

The purpose is quick and complete recovery and to reduce the chance of recurrence.

In Denmark people admitted with Acute Cardiac Disease is referred to a course of hospital based cardiac rehabilitation at discharge.

The Danish Municipal Reform of 2007 changed the responsibility of rehabilitation from the Regions, who runs the hospitals, to the municipalities.

Shared care is in this setting that elements of treatment are completed different places in Health Care.

The aim of this study is:

* to establish a shared care model for Cardiac rehabilitation following admission with Acute Coronary Syndrome and
* to compare this model to the existing hospital based cardiac rehabilitation after admission with Acute Coronary Syndrome.

Primary outcome is participation in cardiac rehabilitation.

Conditions

  • Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • Myocardial Ischemia
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction: Rehabilitation Phase

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Shared Care model

* First visit at cardiac ambulatory approximately 14 days after discharge includes physician examination by cardiologist and counseling from nurse specialized in cardiac rehabilitation. * Dietary counseling with dietician * Exercise (1 hour, 2 timer pr week for 12 weeks) * Smoking cessation if smoker with educated smoking cessation instructor * Patient education and psychosocial support in 2 individual consultations and 8 group based consultations with experienced nurse * Examination by the patient´s general practitioner 8-12 weeks after discharge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Region MidtJylland Denmark

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Aarhus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jannik B Bertelsen, MD · Hjertemedicinsk Afdeling B, Aarhus University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
79 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-10-31
Primary Completion
2015-04-30
Completion
2015-04-30

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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