Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Clinic to Improve the Treatment of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation. (AFClinic)

Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation

Treatments: Other: Care as Usual; Other: AF Clinic

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00753259

MEC 06-4-043

Details and patient eligibility

About

• Randomized controlled trial comparing specialized AF Clinic with 'care as usual'
• Hypothesis: treatment of AF patients in the AF-Clinic by a nurse, specialised in AF, using guideline-based dedicated software, under supervision of a cardiologist, is efficient, safe and not inferior to care as usual by a cardiologists.

Enrollment: 712 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 18 years
• unwillingness to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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712 participants in 2 patient groups

AF Clinic

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: AF Clinic

Care as Usual

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Care as Usual