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Trial reportBMC primary care2024

Evaluating the effectiveness of the cardiovascular assessment screening program with nurse practitioners and patients: results of a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Jill Bruneau, Donna Moralejo, Karen Parsons

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Trial report in BMC primary care, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03170752 (Implementing and Testing a Cardiovascular Assessment Screening Program to Promote Healthy Aging), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Implementing and Testing a Cardiovascular Assessment Screening Program to Promote Healthy Aging (CASP)

TypeinterventionalSponsorMemorial University of NewfoundlandRan2017 to 2018Enrolled169ConditionsCardiovascular Risk Factor, Smoking, Diabetes Mellitus, DyslipidemiasArmsCardiovascular Assessment Screening Program (CASP)
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jill BruneauFaculty of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 323 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X8, Canada. jill.bruneau@mun.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-2436-6042
Donna MoralejoFaculty of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 323 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8689-0849
Karen ParsonsFaculty of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 323 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X8, Canada.ORCID 0009-0009-8580-1184

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThere is inconsistent utilisation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening and management by healthcare professionals to identify CVD risk factors early and to intervene using current recommendations. To address this issue, the Cardiovascular Assessment Screening Program (CASP) was developed, implemented, and evaluated. This manuscript reports on the second phase of an exploratory sequential mixed methods study that tested the effectiveness of the CASP with nurse practitioners (NPs) and patients in Canada.

methodsA two-armed, non-blinded, cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) compared the NP-led implementation of CASP with usual care by NPs in community practice clinics across one Canadian province. The NPs were the cluster variable as their screening practices could be affected by their educational training, resources, or other factors. NPs were eligible for inclusion in the study if they were located in different urban and rural community settings and could conduct follow-up visits with patients. NPs recruited and enrolled the patients from their own practices as participants if they were healthy individuals, aged 40-74 years, with no established CVD or vascular disease. Researchers randomly allocated the NPs (n = 10) to the intervention group (IG) or the control group (CG).

resultsEight (8) NPs and 167 patients participated in the cRCT study. Patient participant-level data were analysed by the originally assigned groups IG (n = 68) and CG (n = 99). Utilising GLM (generalized linear modeling) more IG patients (90%; n = 61) received comprehensive CVD screening compared to the CG patients (2%; n = 2), RR = 30.2, 95% CI [8.76, 103.9], p < .0001, controlling for the effect of NP and BP category.

conclusionNP implementation of CASP was effective for comprehensive screening compared to usual care and led to identifying previously unknown CVD risk factors, calculated FRS, heart health priorities and personalised goal-setting.

trial registrationClinicalTrial.gov ID#: NCT03170752, date of registration 2017/05/31.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesMass ScreeningNurse PractitionersAdultAgedCanadaFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedProgram EvaluationCardiovascular diseaseNurse practitionersPrimary careRandomized controlled trialScreening

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PMID38789927
PMCPMC11127425

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