Study to Improve the Treatment of Patients With Heart Failure by General Practitioners
TOPHU
Therapy OPtimization Heart Failure Utrecht
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interventional
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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.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for phase_4 heart-failure
Started Jun 2009
Typical duration for phase_4 heart-failure
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
June 1, 2009
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
June 1, 2012
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
June 1, 2012
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
August 2, 2012
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
August 10, 2012
CompletedNovember 14, 2012
November 1, 2012
3 years
August 2, 2012
November 13, 2012
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
proportion recommended medication for patients with heart failure
the proportion patient who got at the end of the study the tree medicaments which should be prescribed to a patient with heart failure.
up to 6 months
Secondary Outcomes (1)
QoL
up to 1 year
Study Arms (2)
Training of the GP's, intervention
ACTIVE COMPARATORGeneral practitioners are trained to diagnose and treat heart failure according the recommendations of the NHG-standard.
Controle
ACTIVE COMPARATORGeneral practitioners giving care as usual to their heart failure patients.
Interventions
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Do have a general practitioners diagnosis heart failure mentioned twice in the electronical medical file.
You may not qualify if:
- Incapacitated patients with a life expectancy of less than 2 months
- Seniles
- Patients who do not speak the Dutch language
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Julius Centerlead
- Agis Zorgverzekeringencollaborator
Related Publications (2)
Valk MJ, Hoes AW, Mosterd A, Landman MA, Broekhuizen BD, Rutten FH. Rationale, design and baseline results of the Treatment Optimisation in Primary care of Heart failure in the Utrecht region (TOPHU) study: a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMC Fam Pract. 2015 Oct 7;16:130. doi: 10.1186/s12875-015-0347-1.
PMID: 26446696DERIVEDValk MJ, Broekhuizen BD, Mosterd A, Zuithoff NP, Hoes AW, Rutten FH. COPD in patients with stable heart failure in the primary care setting. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2015 Jun 26;10:1219-24. doi: 10.2147/COPD.S77085. eCollection 2015.
PMID: 26170650DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- phase 4
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- CARE PROVIDER
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- assistant professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
August 2, 2012
First Posted
August 10, 2012
Study Start
June 1, 2009
Primary Completion
June 1, 2012
Study Completion
June 1, 2012
Last Updated
November 14, 2012
Record last verified: 2012-11