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Chest Pain Clinical Trial

Official title: Providing Patients With Extended Information and Examination Results Immediately After a Diagnostic CT of the Coronary Arteries

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Chest pain is a common cause of visits in the Emergency Room and General Practice, and is most commonly connected as a symptom of coronary disease, as for instance angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarct. Approximately 75-80% of these patients are not diagnosed with coronary disease or other cardiac findings. However, many of these patients still report chest pain and worries about cardiac disease.

This study is based on patients that are referred to a CT-examination of the coronary arteries on the background of chest pain, where the CT-examination shows normal coronary arteries.

The study aims to evaluate whether providing an intervention to this group of patients has an effect on patient satisfaction, patient's worry of cardiac disease and incidence of chest pain.

The intervention group will be compared with a similar group going through the same CT-examination, but is receiving the examination result from their regular general practitioner (RGP), which is considered standard care.

The hypothesis is that patients with chest pain with no coronary findings receiving extended information before getting the normal examination results experience a better patient satisfaction than those receiving the examination result from their RGP.

Clinical Trial Description

This study is a randomized controlled study. Eligible patients going through a CT-examination of the heart's coronary arteries, Coronary CT Angiogram (CCTA) will after an informed consent be randomized into two groups, either the intervention group or standard care.

The intervention consists of extended information regarding the benefits of doing a CCTA, thereby emphasising the specificity and accuracy of the CCTA's ability to exclude coronary disease. After this, there will be given an opportunity of a visual go-through and explanation of CT-images. Then they will be informed of the examination result that shows normal coronary arteries.

Follow up is planned after one month, six months and twelve months, where the participants receive the same questionnaire as at baseline to fill out and return. The questionnaire consists of Seattle Angina Questionnaire and RAND-12, in addition to social demographic and clinical data, such as sex, height, weight and current medication. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chest Pain
• Nonmalignant Condition
• Precancerous Conditions

• NCT number: NCT03781661
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Haukeland University Hospital
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 11, 2018
• Completion date: March 4, 2020