Heart Failure
Conditions
Keywords
Heart failure, general practitioner, medical therapy, quality of live
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALGP's treating HF according the dutch guidelines
Sponsors
Agis Zorgverzekeringen
Julius Center
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Caregiver)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| proportion recommended medication for patients with heart failure | up to 6 months | the proportion patient who got at the end of the study the tree medicaments which should be prescribed to a patient with heart failure. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| QoL | up to 1 year | Measurement of quality of live six months after uptitration of the recommended medication. |
Outcome results
None listed