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Added value of a physician-and-nurse-directed heart failure clinic: Results from the Deventer-Alkmaar heart failure study

Link: 10.1136/hrt.2006.095810
Author: Bruggink-André De La Porte, P. W. F. Country/countries: Netherlands Number of patients participating in the study: 240 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
See more Setting of implementation: Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: N/A Targeted self-management behaviours: N/A
Intervention analysed in the study: Action-based and emotional-based behavioural techniques Intervention components: E+AB+EB
See more Setting of implementation: Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Dietician/nutritionist, Nurses, Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: Asking for professional help or emergency care when needed, Condition-specific behaviours, Early recognition of symptoms, Eating behaviours, Medication use and adherence, Physical activity /exercise

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Exercise capacity (including effort test) Exercise capacity New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class of chronic HF
Hospital admissions Hospital days (Lenght of stay) N/A
N/A N/A N/A
Quality of life Quality of life N/A
Quality of life Quality of life Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36)
Self-efficacy Self-efficacy European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior Scale (EHFScBS-9)

Patient characteristics

Age: 70.51 years (+/- a standard deviation of 10.0) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: 31.0 Multi-morbidity: N/A

  • Number of co-morbidities: N/A

 Level of health literacy: N/A

  • Tool: N/A

 Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Exercise capacity (including effort test) - Exercise capacity
Hospital admissions - Hospital days (Lenght of stay)
Quality of life - Quality of life
Quality of life - Quality of life
Self-efficacy - Self-efficacy

Other publications associated with this study

Heartfailure programmes in countries with a primary care-based healthcare system.Are additional trials necessary?Design of the DEAL-HF study. Link: 10.1016/j.ejheart.2004.11.004.