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Last refreshed on: 15 November 2021
Main ID:  NCT02936050
Date of registration: 26/09/2016
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF
Public title: Telemedicine for Ultrasound Support in Nurse-based Outpatient Heart Failure Clinic
Scientific title: The Use of Ultrasound Diagnostics for Clinical Decision Making at Remote Locations - Data From an Outpatient Heart Failure Clinic
Date of first enrolment: October 2016
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02936050
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Norway
Contacts
Name:     Havard Dalen, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Heart failure patients at the outpatient heart failure clinic at Levanger Hospital,
which have consented to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

- As for inclusion, when the patient is not able to consent.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Heart Failure
Intervention(s)
Procedure: Diagnostic ultrasound
Primary Outcome(s)
Reliability of diagnostic ultrasound examinations using support by telemedicine [Time Frame: Reliability will be tested on day 0 (time of study inclusion)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Time use of echocardiography performed by nurses with support by telemedicine [Time Frame: Feasibility will be tested on day 0 (time of study inclusion)]
Classification of type of heart failure by echocardiography by nurses with near real-time support by telemedicine [Time Frame: Classification of type of heart failure by will be tested on day 0 (time of study inclusion)]
Evaluation of volume status with echocardiography by nurses with near real-time support by telemedicine [Time Frame: Evaluation of volume status will be tested on day 0 (time of study inclusion)]
Feasibility of echocardiography performed by nurses with support by telemedicine [Time Frame: Feasibility will be tested on day 0 (time of study inclusion)]
Quality of echocardiography performed by nurses with support by telemedicine [Time Frame: Quality will be tested on day 0 (time of study inclusion)]
Secondary ID(s)
LH_2016-1
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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