Translating ATP III Cholesterol Management Guidelines Into Primary Care Practice

Completed

Conditions studied: Hypercholesterolemia, Coronary Disease, Primary Health Care, Management, Risk

In brief

This quality improvement trial aims to evaluate whether giving patients information about their coronary heart disease risk via a computer kiosk in the doctors waiting room and providing primary care doctors with a personal digital device with a decision support tool to help with cholesterol management will improve cholesterol management compared to usual care.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT01242319
Run by
Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island
People needed
5218
Starts
2002-09-01
Expected to finish
2008-08-01
Last updated by the study team
2010-11-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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