NCT02489565

Telemedicine Qualifying Transition Between Tertiary and Primary Health Care in Stable Coronary Artery Disease Patients

Telemedicine in Qualifying Care Transition Between Tertiary and Primary Health Care Among Stable Coronary Artery Disease Patients: a Randomized Non-inferiority Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 264 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the telemedicine use in primary health care is effective in the accompaniment of stable coronary artery disease patients who were discharged from the tertiary health care clinics.

Detailed description

This study is a randomized non-inferiority trial for patients with chronic coronary artery disease from a tertiary hospital with outpatient discharge criteria. The purpose is to compare the use of telemedicine in the quality of care transition between tertiary care and primary care patients (intervention group), with patients who remain in the outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital (control group).

Conditions

• Coronary Artery Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Telemedicine	Outpatient discharge from tertiary care to primary care with a letter of referral explaining about the study containing phone number from telemedicine and a letter with the patient's history in the hospital. Two months after discharge, the telemedicine's cardiologist initiates contact with the primary care's physician about patient follow-up.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-05-01
• Completion: 2017-11-01
• First posted: 2015-07-03
• Last updated: 2015-07-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil