Study to Improve the Treatment of Patients With Heart Failure by General Practitioners (TOPHU)

Julius Center

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: GP's treating HF according the dutch guidelines

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01662323

TOPHU01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether it is possible to improve the care of general practitioners for patients with heart failure. The investigators try to reach that goal by training the GP's for 90 minutes in uptitrating the recommended medication according the guidelines. After 6 month the investigators ask the patients to fill out a questionary. The investigators ask them about their quality of live.

Enrollment: 683 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Do have a general practitioners diagnosis heart failure mentioned twice in the electronical medical file.

Exclusion criteria

• Incapacitated patients with a life expectancy of less than 2 months
• Seniles
• Patients who do not speak the Dutch language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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683 participants in 2 patient groups

Training of the GP's, intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

General practitioners are trained to diagnose and treat heart failure according the recommendations of the NHG-standard.

Treatment:

Behavioral: GP's treating HF according the dutch guidelines

Controle

Active Comparator group

Description:

General practitioners giving care as usual to their heart failure patients.

Treatment:

Behavioral: GP's treating HF according the dutch guidelines