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Telemedicine Qualifying Transition Between Tertiary and Primary Health Care in Stable Coronary Artery Disease Patients

NCT02489565 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 264

Last updated 2015-07-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the telemedicine use in primary health care is effective in the accompaniment of stable coronary artery disease patients who were discharged from the tertiary health care clinics.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Telemedicine

Outpatient discharge from tertiary care to primary care with a letter of referral explaining about the study containing phone number from telemedicine and a letter with the patient's history in the hospital. Two months after discharge, the telemedicine's cardiologist initiates contact with the primary care's physician about patient follow-up.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Ministry of Health, Brazil

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carisi A Polanczyk, PhD · Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-05-31
Primary Completion
2017-05-31
Completion
2017-11-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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Diseases

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