heart failure, quality of life, hartfalen, kwaliteit van leven,
Conditions
Interventions
1. Clinical examination of nursing home residents including history, physical examination, ECG, Cardiac markers (NT pro BNP) and echocardiography
2. Questionnaires: Care dependency scale, Qualidem, SF-12, VAS, MMSE, MDS.
Sponsors
University Maastricht
Maastricht university medical centre, (department cardiology)
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Nursing home residents aged over 65 years and staying on chronic somatic or psychogeriatric wards.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Nursing home residents who receive palliative care and residents admitted for short-time rehabilitation.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The prevalence of heart failure in Dutch Nursing homes. The diagnosis of heart failure is based on the decision of the panel; 2. The predictive value to diagnose heart failure in a nursing home with a clinical assessment without using echocardiography and judgment of a panel cardiologists as golden standard is based on the percentage of cases that are diagnosed as heart failure by the NHP without the results of the echocardiogram compared to the same cases assessed by and diagnosed as heart failure by the panel using the golden standard. The nursing home physician will diagnose heart failure based on the available information about history, physical examination, NT-pro BNP value, ECG, diagnosis, co-morbidity and medication; 3. The current treatment of heart failure in nursing homes compared to the guidelines using the medication prescriptions in the nursing homes; 4. The care dependency and quality of life of nursing home residents with heart failure compared to them with no heart failure; 5. Insight in the course of heart failure after one year follow-up regarding the outcomes: heart failure events, hospital admissions for heart failure and mortality. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactM. Velden, van der - Daamen
Postbus 616
Outcome results
None listed