CARE - Quality Improvement in Cardiovascular Secondary Prevention in Primary Care, Through Delegation of Consultations to the Nurse.

CARE - Quality Development in Cardiovascular Disease in General Practice

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00713960

Enrollment

2193

Registered

2008-07-14

Start date

2008-04-30

Completion date

2010-12-31

Last updated

2012-01-16

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Conditions

Cardiovascular Disease

Keywords

Quality development project, primary care nurses, cardiovascular disease, secondary prevention, follow-up

Brief summary

Quality Improvement in Primary Care: delegation of check-ups to nurses in general practice

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients in secondary prevention of cardiopathy (ischaemic heart disease, claudication intermittence, thrombotic apoplexy cerebri, diabetes) who are not followed in an outpatient department.

Exclusion criteria

* Patients who suffer from diabetic nephropathy will be excluded * According to the general practitioners appraisal, patients who suffer from severe co morbidity can be excluded as well.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Cholesterol, HDL -cholesterol, LDL-Cholesterol, Blood pressure, Exercise, Waist-circumference, BMI, Smoking status, fasting plasma-glucose, medication taken	As needed, min. baseline and after 6 months

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Number of visits pr. patients, drop-out	Annually

Countries

Denmark

Outcome results