Rationale, design and baseline results of the Treatment Optimisation in Primary care of Heart failure in the Utrecht region (TOPHU) study: A cluster randomised controlled trial

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Valk, Mark J ^a   Hoes, Arno W ^a   Mosterd, Arend ^a,b   Landman, Marcel A ^c   Broekhuizen, Berna D L ^a   Rutten, Frans H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Van Hardenbroeklaan 21   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cluster randomised controlled trial; Drug treatment; General practice; Heart failure; Training

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTONIC AGENT;

CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84959559451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-015-0347-1     Document Type: Article

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