Clinical trial NCT00713960: CARE - Quality Improvement in Cardiovascular Secondary Prevention in Primary Care, Through Delegation of Consultations to the Nurse.
Official title: CARE - Quality Development in Cardiovascular Disease in General Practice
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Cardiovascular Disease
Keywords: Quality development project
primary care nurses
cardiovascular disease
secondary prevention
follow-up
Lead sponsor: AstraZeneca
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2008-07-14
Enrollment: 2193
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Primary care clinic

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


Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Cholesterol, HDL -cholesterol, LDL-Cholesterol, Blood pressure, Exercise, Waist-circumference, BMI, Smoking status, fasting plasma-glucose, medication taken
timeFrame: As needed, min. baseline and after 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of visits pr. patients, drop-out
timeFrame: Annually
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Albertslund
country: Denmark
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Study officials:
affiliation: Lægerne i Løgumkloster I/S, Denmark
name: Henrik Ommen, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Lægerne Sønderåparken, Denmark
name: Dorte Knudsen
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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