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

Julius Center683 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

683

Conditions

Heart Failure

Interventions

GP's treating HF according the dutch guidelinesBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

proportion recommended medication for patients with heart failure

the proportion patient who got at the end of the study the tree medicaments which should be prescribed to a patient with heart failure.

Time frame: up to 6 months

Secondary Outcomes

QoL

Measurement of quality of live six months after uptitration of the recommended medication.

Time frame: up to 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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