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Optimising Congestive Heart Failure Outpatient Clinic Project

NCT01671995 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 208

Last updated 2012-08-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study examines whether a nurse monitored management program at the hospital heart failure outpatient clinic can improve quality of life in elderly patients with chronic heart failure, as compared to standard treatment in primary healthcare.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Nurse monitored heart failure program

Standard program for a heart failure clinic with information, education, drug titration

PROCEDURE

Standard primary health care

Standard care in primary care according to national guidelines but at the discretion of the primary care caregiver

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Magnus Edner, MD, PhD · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1996-01-31
Primary Completion
2001-06-30
Completion
2001-06-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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