Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Gill Grimshaw
ORCID ID
Contact details
Eli Lilley National Clinical Audit Centre
Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care
University of Leicester
Leicester General Hospital
Leicester
LE5 4PW
United Kingdom
+44 (0)116 2584394
Gill.Grimshaw@warwick.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
PSI B-28
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
The objective of the study is to determine, by means of an randomised control trial, the effectiveness of local guidelines for use of hospital based echocardiography on general practitioners' management of patients with heart failure and on patient outcome.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
GP practices
Trial type
Other
Patient information sheet
Condition
Heart disease
Intervention
Not provided at time of registration
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Effectiveness of guidelines measured as changes in number of cases of suspected heart failure receiving appropriate diagnostic tests, costs of investigations and drugs, prescribing patterns and patient bourne costs.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/04/1997
Overall trial end date
01/12/2000
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
General practices within Leicestershire with computerised prescribing registers will be admitted to the study.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Other
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
Not provided at time of registration
Participant exclusion criteria
Does not match inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date
01/04/1997
Recruitment end date
01/12/2000
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Eli Lilley National Clinical Audit Centre
Leicester
LE5 4PW
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Record Provided by the NHS R&D 'Time-Limited' National Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
NHS Primary and Secondary Care Interface National Research and Development Programme (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2002 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12453549
Publication citations
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Results
Khunti K, Hearnshaw H, Baker R, Grimshaw G, Heart failure in primary care: qualitative study of current management and perceived obstacles to evidence-based diagnosis and management by general practitioners., Eur. J. Heart Fail., 2002, 4, 6, 771-777.