European Quality Improvement Programme for Acute Coronary Syndromes (EQUIP-ACS)

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Acute Coronary Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: Quality Improvement Programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00716430

EQUIP-ACS 1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main hypothesis to be tested is that the use of a quality improvement programme will lead to measurable improvements in the management of care and use of evidence based treatments for patients presenting to hospital with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes.

Enrollment: 3,500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with a good clinical history of ACS and at least one of the following:

• New or transient ST or T wave changes on the ECG consistent with acute myocardial ischaemia
• Elevation of troponin or other cardiac markers to levels indicative of myocardial necrosis according to local laboratory values

Exclusion criteria

• Evidence of persistent ST elevation on the ECG
• Use of early reperfusion therapy
• Patients >80 years
• Patients transferred from another hospital

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3,500 participants in 2 patient groups

QI

Active Comparator group

Description:

Quality Improvement Centres

Treatment:

Behavioral: Quality Improvement Programme

Non-QI

No Intervention group

Description:

No Quality Improvement Programme