Valvular & structural heart disease

Electronic physician notification to facilitate the recognition and management of severe aortic stenosis: Rationale, design, and methods of the randomized controlled DETECT AS trial

Am Heart JPublished Rationale and design paper of the DETECT AS randomised controlled trial

Study context

Population
Patients with severe AS whose providers ordered an echocardiogram with findings potentially indicative of severe AS940 planned
Planned comparison
Electronic physician notification vs usual care
Primary endpoint
Proportion of patients with severe AS receiving aortic valve replacement
Follow-up
Within one year of the index echocardiogram
Methodological detailsmulticentre, academic health system, quality improvement initiative, provider-level randomisation, Secondary endpoints: mortality, HF hospitalization, transthoracic echocardiogram utilization, AS billing code, cardiology/Valve Team referral
  • Multicentre
  • Academic health system
  • Quality improvement initiative
  • Provider-level randomisation
  • Secondary endpoints: mortality, HF hospitalization, transthoracic echocardiogram utilization, AS billing code, cardiology/Valve Team referral

No results yet. This paper sets out the design of a trial; its results are to come.

Original publication

Electronic physician notification to facilitate the recognition and management of severe aortic stenosis: Rationale, design, and methods of the randomized controlled DETECT AS trial. Am Heart J. Published 29 June 2024. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2024.06.009

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