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| Agis Zorgverzekeringen | OTHER |
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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.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Training of the GP's, intervention | Active Comparator | General practitioners are trained to diagnose and treat heart failure according the recommendations of the NHG-standard. |
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| Controle | Active Comparator | General practitioners giving care as usual to their heart failure patients. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| GP's treating HF according the dutch guidelines | Behavioral |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| 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 |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| QoL | Measurement of quality of live six months after uptitration of the recommended medication. | up to 1 year |
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| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 26446696 | Derived | 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. | |
| 26170650 | Derived |
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| ID | Term |
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| D006333 | Heart Failure |
| ID | Term |
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| D006331 | Heart Diseases |
| D002318 | Cardiovascular Diseases |
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| Valk 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. |