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Welcome to Belgium-HF web site

 
Congestive Heart Failure affects some 100.000 and 200.000 people in Belgium with a severe impact on their quality of life. Statistics have shown that 40% of patients discharged from hospital are expected to be re-hospitalised within 6 months. 

 

BELGIUM-HF, which stands for Better Efficacity in Lowering Events by General practitioner's Intervention Using remote Monitoring in Heart Failure, aims to cut back this re-hospitalisation rate through an innovative monitoring system for HF patients, with the assistance of general practitioners. The combination of GPs and telemedicine makes this a unique, ambitious clinical trial from both the Belgium and the European perspectives. 

 

BELGIUM-HF is the result of a narrow collaboration between the SSMG (Belgian Society of General Practitioners), the Brussels Heart Center of Clinique St-Jean, the Biostatistic Unit of the University of Louvain, Touring, Vitalsys and Belgacom Mobile. The key to the success of this project is the pooled expertise from the field of medicine, cardiology, people assistance, telemedicine and telecommunication technologies.


To date, BELGIUM-HF has been funded by the Brussels Region, Touring and Belgacom.

Although the private part of this site is limited to general practitioners and cardiologists, you can request additional information via the contact sheet section of this web site.

 

 
 

How to join the clinical trial ?

Are you a General Practitioner or a Cardiologist ? Do you want to join the largest telemedicine trial ever conducted in Belgium ? Does one of your patient meet the inclusion criteria ? Do you want to participate as an investigation center and include your study nurse in the process ? Then this is a unique opportunity to help to prepare the telemedicine future in Belgium !

Belgium-HF is officially registered as a clinical trial. Its National Registration Number is B11020072636 and runs under the control of the Ethic Committee of Clinique St-Jean Brussels.

Please call the Brussels Heart Center (02/221.91.33) or SSMG (02/533.09.81) or e-mail to . You will receive all the information and training that you need to enrol your patient or your investigation team in the clinical study.
 

Recruitement is ongoing

We are looking for CHF patients satisfying the following inclusion criteria :
 
1. left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 40%
2. hospitalized within the past 6 months for mild to severe HF NYHA Class II to IV
3. having received loop diuretics within 2 weeks prior to screening and inclusion
4.
 at least 18 years of age
 
 
 The exclusion criteria are :

  1.
 scheduled for corrective valve surgery or coronary revascularization
  2. a significant concurrent illness or condition (i.e. terminal malignancy)
  3. hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis
  4. pregnancy
  5. a general health or psychiatric condition associated with poor compliance

If you have any question about this criteria, please call the study nurse (02/221.91.33) or SSMG (0472/636.219) or e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
 

 
Investigation sites


Here is the list of hospitals and practitionners organisations that are currently collaborating with Belgium-HF.
The site qualification procedures underway are not mentionned.


 

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Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 February 2009 15:44 )