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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN46767423
Date of registration: 23/01/2004
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Record Provided by the NHS R&D 'Time-Limited' National Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Public title: The evaluation of guidelines on referral of patients with suspected heart failure for echocardiography.
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Date of first enrolment: 01/04/1997
Target sample size: 0
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN46767423
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial (Other)  
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Contacts
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Affiliation: 
Name: Gill    Grimshaw
Address:  Eli Lilley National Clinical Audit Centre Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care University of Leicester Leicester General Hospital LE5 4PW Leicester United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)116 2584394
Email: Gill.Grimshaw@warwick.ac.uk
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: General practices within Leicestershire with computerised prescribing registers will be admitted to the study.
Exclusion criteria: Does not match inclusion criteria

Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender: Not Specified
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Heart disease
Circulatory System
Heart failure
Intervention(s)
Not provided at time of registration
Primary Outcome(s)
Effectiveness of guidelines measured as changes in number of cases of suspected heart failure receiving appropriate diagnostic tests, costs of investigations and drugs, prescribing patterns and patient bourne costs.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Not provided at time of registration
Secondary ID(s)
PSI B-28
Source(s) of Monetary Support
NHS Primary and Secondary Care Interface National Research and Development Programme (UK)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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