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

J

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

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

Trial contacts and locations

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