Study of the Effectiveness of Report Cards on the Quality of Care for Heart Attack and Heart Failure Patients

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

46,000

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

November 30, 2001

Primary Completion Date

March 31, 2009

Study Completion Date

March 31, 2009

Conditions
Acute Myocardial InfarctionCongestive Heart Failure
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Publicly released hospital cardiac report cards

Participating hospital corporations were randomized to either early feedback or delayed feedback (21 months later) in the form of publicly released hospital report cards of performance on a set of cardiac process-of-care quality indicators.

Trial Locations (1)

M4N 3M5

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

OTHER

lead

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

OTHER

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