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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 26 June 2023
Main ID:  ISRCTN87465420
Date of registration: 07/05/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Servier
Public title: Quality of adherence to guideline recommendations for life-saving treatment in heart failure: an international survey
Scientific title: QUAlity of adherence to guideline recommendations for LIfe-saving treatment in heart failure: an international surveY: an observational study
Date of first enrolment: 01/09/2013
Target sample size: 7092
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN87465420
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Prospective observational longitudinal survey (Other)  
Phase:  Not Applicable
Countries of recruitment
Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Belarus Brunei Canada
China Denmark Egypt Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Ireland
Jordan Kazakhstan Korea, South Kuwait Lebanon Lithuania Malaysia Morocco
Oman Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russian Federation Slovakia Spain
Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates
Contacts
Name: Michel    Komajda
Address:  Groupe Hospitalier Pitie - Salpetriere Département de Cardiologie 47/83 boulevard de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris France
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Outpatients with chronic heart failure:
1. > 18 years of age
2. Hospitalised for worsening of heart failure within 1–15 months
3. With LVSD as demonstrated by left ventricular ejection fraction = 40% measured using the most recent echocardiogram (= 2 years)
4. Validation of rhythm at inclusion

Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients on waiting list for heart transplantation or planned implantation of left ventricular assist device; planned cardiac resynchronisation therapy and implantable cardioverter defibrillators are permitted
2. Patients with planned revascularisation
3. Patients hospitalised for cardiovascular disease within the past 4 weeks
4. Conditions hampering participation or the 18-month follow-up


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Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Heart failure
Circulatory System
Heart disease
Intervention(s)
Non-interventional survey
Primary Outcome(s)
1 To evaluate physician’s adherence to HF guidelines by measuring prescriptions modalities of recommended HF medications
2. To calculate an adherence score
3. To analyze the reasons for non-adherence
4. To assess the impact of adherence level on clinical outcomes

Measured at baseline and at 6, 12 and 18 months.
Secondary Outcome(s)
To characterize the clinical characteristics and management of outpatients with HF and left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD).

Measured at baseline and at 6, 12 and 18 months.
Secondary ID(s)
N/A
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Servier (France)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
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Old ethics approval format; Ethics approval obtained in every country in accordance with local regulations. All 557 centres obtained ethics approval before recruitment of the first participant (the first approval was obtained on 10/06/2013 from the Ethics Committee at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Slovakia; approval for the last site was on 20/09/2014 from McGill University Health Centre Biomedical D, Canada).
Results
Results available: Yes
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Date Completed: 01/09/2018
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