Impact of patient education on chronic heart failure in primary care (ETIC): a cluster randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Education Thérapeutique des patients Insuffisants Cardiaques (ETIC; Therapeutic Education for Patients with Cardiac Failure) trial aimed to determine whether a pragmatic education intervention in general practice could improve the quality of life of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) compared with routine care.

Results

This cluster randomised controlled clinical trial included 241 patients with CHF attending 54 general practitioners (GPs) in France and involved 19 months of follow-up. The GPs in the Intervention Group were trained during a 2-day interactive workshop to provide a patient education programme. The mean age of the patients was 74 years (±10.5), 62 % were men and their mean left-ventricular ejection fraction was 49.3 % (± 14.3). At the end o

SUBMITTER: Vaillant-Roussel H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4949928 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature