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Canadian Community Utilization of Stroke Prevention Study - Emergency Department

NCT02358655 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 360

Last updated 2018-10-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common heart condition, and increases the risk of stroke by six times. There are several medications (blood thinners) that can prevent strokes in AF patients. Many AF patients present to the emergency department, but about half of AF patients leave without prescription of a blood thinner. The study aims to evaluate if adding options like giving a patient education kit, encouraging emergency room physicians to prescribe a blood thinner and providing a specialized AF clinic to patients will increase the number patients receiving blood thinners to prevent strokes.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Retrospective review of OAC prescription

OTHER

Prescription of OAC in ED

OTHER

Community AF clinic

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Population Health Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ratika Parkash, MD · Dalhousie University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-06-01
Primary Completion
2016-10-31
Completion
2018-03-08

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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