None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
A randomised-controlled trial of a shared approach to risk management (the intervention) versus standard care (control) following stroke. Outcome is blinded and analysis is intention-to-treat. A cost-effectiveness analysis is included. It is hypothesised that at 12 months following stroke a shared nurse/doctor team approach to risk factor management will result in improved management of patients risk factors, result in fewer adverse events, and will be cost-effective.
Interventions
Patients who have had a new stroke are randomised to receive a coordinated team approach of risk factor management following discharge home from hospital. The approach involves assessing patients’ risk factors, educating patients about their risk factors, and then treating their risk factors and/or otherwise managing their risk factors with behavioural changes. Both nurses and doctors in hospital and primary care settings coordinate this care. The intervention will continue for 18 months.
Sponsors
Monash University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Patient with first or recurrent stroke (haemorrhage or infarct) or transient ischaemic attack, admitted to hospital.
Exclusion criteria
Patients living more than 50km from the hospital, recruited to another clinical trial, or being discharged to a nursing home.
Outcome results
None listed