Clinical trial NCT01756846: Impact on Management of the HEART Risk Score in Chest Pain Patients
Official title: Cost-effectiveness Study of the HEART Score in the Management of Patients With Chest Pain Presenting in the Emergency Room
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Chest Pain
Keywords: HEART score
risk score
impact
chest pain
Lead sponsor: UMC Utrecht
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development
First posted: 2012-12-28
Enrollment: 3666
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Intervention model description: this is a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial, meaning it is both parallel and cross-over. During 14 months, patients presenting with chest pain to the ED of participating hospitals will be included in the study. First, all hospitals will apply 'usual care' to all patients, i.e. risk assessment and subsequent management without application of the HEART score. Then, during a 14 month period, each 1,5 month 1 randomly allocated hospital will sequentially start to apply the HEART score in all chest pain patients (intervention period).
Primary purpose: DIAGNOSTIC

Brief summary: Aim of this study is to quantify the impact of the use of the HEART risk score on patient outcome and on costs in patients with chest pain presenting at the emergency room, as compared to not using the score.

Detailed description: During 14 months, patients presenting with chest pain to the Emergency Department (ED) of participating hospitals will be included in the study. First, all hospitals will apply 'usual care' to all patients, i.e. risk assessment and subsequent management without application of the HEART score. Then, during a 14 month period, each 1,5 month 1 randomly allocated hospital will sequentially start to apply the HEART score in all chest pain patients (intervention period); during this intervention period patients with a HEART score 0-3 will not be admitted to the hospital (in accordance with the results of our validation studies), and patients with a HEART score above 3 will be treated according to current guidelines.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All patients presenting with chest pain to the (cardiac) ED of ten participating Dutch hospitals, older than 18 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children (age \<18 years) are excluded from study participation. Subjects who are (for whatever reason) not able to fill in questionnaires are excluded from study participation. Legal incapacity of every patient will be assessed by the attending doctor, according to the guidelines of legal incapacity. In case of doubt, consultation of the cardiologist (primary local investigator) will be possible.

Primary outcomes:
measure: MACE (Major Adverse Cardiac Events)
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Cost-effectiveness (Costs, QoL, QALYs)
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Gender-related Differences in Risk for MACE
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: Pre-specified Subgroup Analyses
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Locations:
city: Amstelveen
country: Netherlands
facility: Amstelland Hospital
city: Amsterdam
country: Netherlands
facility: VU Medical Center
city: Ede
country: Netherlands
facility: Gelderse Vallei
city: Eindhoven
country: Netherlands
facility: Catharina Hospital
city: Heerlen
country: Netherlands
facility: Atrium Medical Center
city: Nieuwegein
country: Netherlands
facility: St. Antonius Hospital
city: Utrecht
country: Netherlands
facility: Diakonessenhuis
city: Utrecht
country: Netherlands
facility: University Medical Center
city: Woerden
country: Netherlands
facility: Zuwe Hofpoort
Study officials:
affiliation: UMC Utrecht
name: Arno W Hoes, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Backus BE, Six AJ, Kelder JH, Gibler WB, Moll FL, Doevendans PA. Risk scores for patients with chest pain: evaluation in the emergency department. Curr Cardiol Rev. 2011 Feb;7(1):2-8. doi: 10.2174/157340311795677662.
citation: Backus BE, Six AJ, Kelder JC, Mast TP, van den Akker F, Mast EG, Monnink SH, van Tooren RM, Doevendans PA. Chest pain in the emergency room: a multicenter validation of the HEART Score. Crit Pathw Cardiol. 2010 Sep;9(3):164-9. doi: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e3181ec36d8.
citation: Six AJ, Backus BE, Doevendans PA. Rapid diagnostic protocol for patients with chest pain. Lancet. 2011 Jul 30;378(9789):398; author reply 398-9. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61204-X. No abstract available.
citation: Six AJ, Backus BE, Kingma A, Kaandorp SI. Consumption of diagnostic procedures and other cardiology care in chest pain patients after presentation at the emergency department. Neth Heart J. 2012 Dec;20(12):499-504. doi: 10.1007/s12471-012-0322-6.
citation: Six AJ, Backus BE, Kelder JC. Chest pain in the emergency room: value of the HEART score. Neth Heart J. 2008 Jun;16(6):191-6. doi: 10.1007/BF03086144.
citation: Nieuwets A, Poldervaart JM, Reitsma JB, Buitendijk S, Six AJ, Backus BE, Hoes AW, Doevendans PA. Medical consumption compared for TIMI and HEART score in chest pain patients at the emergency department: a retrospective cost analysis. BMJ Open. 2016 Jun 16;6(6):e010694. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010694.
citation: Poldervaart JM, Reitsma JB, Koffijberg H, Backus BE, Six AJ, Doevendans PA, Hoes AW. The impact of the HEART risk score in the early assessment of patients with acute chest pain: design of a stepped wedge, cluster randomised trial. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2013 Sep 26;13:77. doi: 10.1186/1471-2261-13-77.
citation: Backus BE, Six AJ, Kelder JC, Bosschaert MA, Mast EG, Mosterd A, Veldkamp RF, Wardeh AJ, Tio R, Braam R, Monnink SH, van Tooren R, Mast TP, van den Akker F, Cramer MJ, Poldervaart JM, Hoes AW, Doevendans PA. A prospective validation of the HEART score for chest pain patients at the emergency department. Int J Cardiol. 2013 Oct 3;168(3):2153-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.01.255. Epub 2013 Mar 7.
citation: Poldervaart JM, Reitsma JB, Backus BE, Koffijberg H, Veldkamp RF, Ten Haaf ME, Appelman Y, Mannaerts HFJ, van Dantzig JM, van den Heuvel M, El Farissi M, Rensing BJWM, Ernst NMSKJ, Dekker IMC, den Hartog FR, Oosterhof T, Lagerweij GR, Buijs EM, van Hessen MWJ, Landman MAJ, van Kimmenade RRJ, Cozijnsen L, Bucx JJJ, van Ofwegen-Hanekamp CEE, Cramer MJ, Six AJ, Doevendans PA, Hoes AW. Effect of Using the HEART Score in Patients With Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: A Stepped-Wedge, Cluster Randomized Trial. Ann Intern Med. 2017 May 16;166(10):689-697. doi: 10.7326/M16-1600. Epub 2017 Apr 25.
citation: Poldervaart JM, Langedijk M, Backus BE, Dekker IMC, Six AJ, Doevendans PA, Hoes AW, Reitsma JB. Comparison of the GRACE, HEART and TIMI score to predict major adverse cardiac events in chest pain patients at the emergency department. Int J Cardiol. 2017 Jan 15;227:656-661. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.10.080. Epub 2016 Oct 30.