Why the study?
Most heart failure management occurs in primary care, but evidence for integrated disease management serving the primary care heart failure population remains inconclusive.
Does primary care-based integrated disease management reduce the combined rate of all-cause hospitalisations, emergency department visits, and mortality in high-risk primary care heart failure patients?
Population
Planned 280 high-risk primary care HF patients across 100 family physician clusters
Comparison
Integrated disease management vs care as usual
Design
Multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial
Follow-up
12-month
Authors
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IDM for primary care HF requires RCT evaluation; leaves open effects on hospitalizations, ED visits, and mortality.
Does primary care-based integrated disease management reduce the combined rate of all-cause hospitalisations, emergency department visits, and mortality in high-risk primary care heart failure patients?
This study protocol outlines a cluster randomized trial to evaluate whether primary care-based integrated disease management reduces hospitalizations, ED visits, and mortality in high-risk heart failure patients.
Hussey et al. (2022) studied this question.
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