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Providing Patient Information and CT Examination Results

NCT03781661 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 92

Last updated 2020-10-14

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Summary

Chest pain is a common cause of visits in the Emergency Room and General Practice, and is most commonly connected as a symptom of coronary disease, as for instance angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarct. Approximately 75-80% of these patients are not diagnosed with coronary disease or other cardiac findings. However, many of these patients still report chest pain and worries about cardiac disease.

This study is based on patients that are referred to a CT-examination of the coronary arteries on the background of chest pain, where the CT-examination shows normal coronary arteries.

The study aims to evaluate whether providing an intervention to this group of patients has an effect on patient satisfaction, patient's worry of cardiac disease and incidence of chest pain.

The intervention group will be compared with a similar group going through the same CT-examination, but is receiving the examination result from their regular general practitioner (RGP), which is considered standard care.

The hypothesis is that patients with chest pain with no coronary findings receiving extended information before getting the normal examination results experience a better patient satisfaction than those receiving the examination result from their RGP.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Extended information

The extended information consists out of an information leaflet and a visual go-through of the participants calcium score images. The patients are then given the normal examination result.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Haukeland University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tone M Norekvaal, Professor · University of Bergen

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-11
Primary Completion
2019-03-04
Completion
2020-03-04

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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