Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01522001
Shared Care Rehabilitation After Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 212 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 79 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Cardiac rehabilitation is an individual adapted multidisciplinary intervention for people suffering from Heart Disease. It involves; * Dietary counseling, * Exercise training, * Psychosocial support, * Physician * smoking cessation * Patient education The purpose is quick and complete recovery and to reduce the chance of recurrence. In Denmark people admitted with Acute Cardiac Disease is referred to a course of hospital based cardiac rehabilitation at discharge. The Danish Municipal Reform of 2007 changed the responsibility of rehabilitation from the Regions, who runs the hospitals, to the municipalities. Shared care is in this setting that elements of treatment are completed different places in Health Care. The aim of this study is: * to establish a shared care model for Cardiac rehabilitation following admission with Acute Coronary Syndrome and * to compare this model to the existing hospital based cardiac rehabilitation after admission with Acute Coronary Syndrome. Primary outcome is participation in cardiac rehabilitation.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Shared Care model | * First visit at cardiac ambulatory approximately 14 days after discharge includes physician examination by cardiologist and counseling from nurse specialized in cardiac rehabilitation. * Dietary counseling with dietician * Exercise (1 hour, 2 timer pr week for 12 weeks) * Smoking cessation if smoker with educated smoking cessation instructor * Patient education and psychosocial support in 2 individual consultations and 8 group based consultations with experienced nurse * Examination by the patient´s general practitioner 8-12 weeks after discharge. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2011-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-04-01
- Completion
- 2015-04-01
- First posted
- 2012-01-31
- Last updated
- 2015-05-29
Locations
3 sites across 1 country: Denmark
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01522001. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.