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Heart Failure in Southern Sweden

NCT04129658 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 563

Last updated 2024-02-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of the study is to optimize diagnosis and treatment for patients with heart failure in Swedish primary care. Patient with the diagnose heart failure registered in the electronic medical record (EMR) at seventeen primary health care centers (PHCCs) will be invited to to participate in the study. Blood testing and electrocardiography will be performed. Data on diagnosis and medical treatment will be collected from the EMR. An educational visit with a cardiologist will be performed at the PHCC, in order to discuss evidence-based diagnoses and treatment of heart failure. Data on drug therapy and health care consumption will be collected after six and twelve months.

Conditions

  • Heart Failure，Congestive
  • Drug Use
  • Patient Care

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational outreach visit

Two-four hours of discussion between a cardiologist and the primary care physicians at the PHCC encompassing evidence-based treatment guidelines and counseling upon specific patient cases and their diagnose and treatment for congestive heart failure.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Region Skane

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-26
Primary Completion
2024-01-31
Completion
2024-01-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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