Does a complex intervention increase patient knowledge about oral anticoagulation? - a cluster-randomised controlled trial

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• 作者：Verena Maikranz ; Andrea Siebenhofer ; Lisa-R. Ulrich…
• 关键词：Oral anticoagulation ; Patient education ; Case management ; General practice ; Patient knowledge
• 刊名：BMC Family Practice
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 全文大小：470KB
• 刊物主题：General Practice / Family Medicine; Primary Care Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2296
• 卷排序：18

文摘

BackgroundOral anticoagulation therapy (OAT) is a challenge in general practice, especially for high-risk groups such as the elderly. Insufficient patient knowledge about safety-relevant aspects of OAT is considered to be one of the main reasons for complications. The research question addressed in this manuscript is whether a complex intervention that includes practice-based case management, self-management of OAT and additional patient and practice team education improves patient knowledge about anticoagulation therapy compared to a control group of patients receiving usual care (as a secondary objective of the Primary Care Management for Optimised Antithrombotic Treatment (PICANT) trial).