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CompletedNCT03362983CareHNDUpdated Jan 13, 2021

Integrated, Multidisciplinary, Person-centered Care for Patients With Complex Comorbidities: Heart, Kidney and Diabetes

An interventional study of CareHND in Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Kidney Diseases and Cardiovascular Diseases, sponsored by Danderyd Hospital. Completed at 1 site in Sweden. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-01-13.

Sponsored by Danderyd Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 5 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jan 2016, registered Jun 2017).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
131
Allocation
Randomized
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 168 studies in Diabetes Mellitus with a site in Sweden — 16 open to participants now, 19 under way, 1 of them phase 3. Diabetes Mellitus · Sweden.

Enrollment
72nd of 132
131 · median 165
Started
2016
with 6 others
No phase
33 of 168
4 open now
Registered
130th of 168
by date

Among the 168 studies in Diabetes Mellitus with a site in Sweden, this one is the 72nd largest by enrollment of the 132 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 7 that started in 2016, is one of 33 with no phase, and was the 130th registered.

Diabetes Mellitus

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This study: all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

Patient with complex comorbidities present a growing challenge for health-care providers, that the current system is poorly designed to handle. Concomitant cardiovascular disease, renal dysfunction and diabetes represent almost half of all patients attending cardiac, kidney and diabetes clinics. Patients with all three of these will be randomized to standard care or to a combined, integrated, person-centered, intensified chronic disease management.

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Patients with concomitant cardiovascular disease, renal dysfunction and diabetes represent almost half of all patients attending cardiac, kidney and diabetes clinics, and about 15 % suffer all three. This proportion of patients with multiple chronic conditions increase markedly by age. These complicated diseases interact, and treatment of one affect the others. Despite this have a progressive subspecialisation caused cardiologist to treat "only" the heart, nephrologists "only" the kidneys and endocrinologists' "only" diabetes. Studies and guidelines follow the same pattern. At best this require patients to visit specialists in each field; at worst result in redundant examinations, under-diagnosis and under-treatment of comorbidities. From the patient perspective, there is a great need for coordination and improvement of the care, not only to reduce disease progression but also to optimise quality of life.

We aim to study if the treatment and outcome for patients with concomitant cardiovascular disease, renal dysfunction and diabetes can be improved through a new model to deliver healthcare. We have designed an integrated clinic to handle all three conditions at the same visit, with a person-centered team-based approach between patients, nurses and physicians, with bi-weekly therapy conferences by dedicated and educated cardiologists, nephrologists and endocrinologists. At these, optimised care-plans are developed, and at following team-visits and phone contacts, these are implemented.

The intervention will be studied in a randomised controlled trial (CareHND) at HND-centrum, a novel integrated outpatient clinic in Stockholm.

Our main hypothesis is that HND-centra results in better care, from several aspects, at lower overall burden on the health care system.

The CareHND study will randomise an estimated 260 patients to HND-centrum or standard care.

The sample size is based on a power calculation for the combined outcome (Project 1): readmissions for heart failure, death, myocardial infarction, end-stage renal disease or TIA / stroke with 2 years follow up.

For Project 2, 3 and 4 detailed below the sample size will be 131. At 131 patients randomized an interim analysis will also be performed for the main outcome, after which the sample size will be adjusted if needed.

Inclusion criteria - CareHND:

    • Established cardiovascular disease, and:
    • Diabetes mellitus type 1 or 2, and:
    • Established kidney disease (eGFR \<60 mL/min/m2 or macroalbuminuria).

Intervention:

Combined (nurses, physicians and paramedics), integrated (nephrology, diabetology and cardiology), person-centered, intensified chronic disease management at an integrated clinic for up to 12 months.

Outcome measures:

Project 1: traditional outcome measures including disease progression. Project 2: perceived quality of care. Project 3: value-based analysis of integrated clinic and health management. Project 4: Comparison between Sweden and Canada.

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Conditions studied

  • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Chronic Kidney Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Chronic Disease
  • Multimorbidity
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

    • Established cardiovascular disease (such as history of myocardial infarction, angina, or heart failure requiring hospitalization, previous stroke or with certain diagnosis, and peripheral vascular disease), as well as:
    • Diabetes mellitus type 1 or 2 (treated diabetes, or new onset diabetes according to WHO criteria or > 48, and symptoms, as well as:
    • Established kidney disease ( \<60 mL/min/m2 calculated with the CKD-EPI formula, or an average of the CKD -EPI and Cystatin-C eGFR, or borderline GFR but concomitant microalbuminuria, or macroalbuminuria, or kidney transplant).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

1 - Inability to provide consent

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

HbA1c

A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
131 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Care HND Intervention

    Integrated, multidisciplinary, person centered care at HND-centrum.

    Other: CareHND

  • No intervention
    Standard care

    Standard care at separate specialty clinics and primary care as needed.

Interventions

  • OtherCareHND

    Multidisciplinary, integrated, person-centered care at the integrated HND-clinic

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Disease progression (n=260)

    Combined death or readmission due to heart failure, myocardial infarction, PCI/CABG, end stage renal failure, acute renal failure or TIA / stroke.

    Time frame: 2 years

  2. Patient centered outcome measures (n=131)

    Perceived quality of care and patient empowerment assessed by a PROMs (Patient Reported Outcome Measure) questionaire with a sum score.

    Time frame: 1 year

  3. Quality-of-care outcome measures (n=131)

    Combined score of achieved target blood pressure, target HbA1C and target LDL.

    Time frame: 1 year

Secondary outcomes

  1. Organ damage (n=131)

    Decline in eGFR

    Time frame: 1 year

  2. System biology (n=131)

    Changes in markers of disease progression in transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics.

    Time frame: 1 year

  3. Health care structure and utilization (n=131)

    Health care utilization measured by number of outpatient and inpatient contacts

    Time frame: 1 year.

  4. Patient safety (n=131)

    Using logged patient safety reports.

    Time frame: 1 year

  5. Interdisciplinary learning (n=20)

    Qualitative analysis of interdisciplinary learning between personnel.

    Time frame: 1 year

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Study locations

1 site
  • HND centrum, Danderyd University Hospital
    Stockholm, Stockholms LAN 18261, Sweden
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References and documents

Study documents

PDFs hosted by the registry, ClinicalTrials.gov.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Upon individual application and review as required by Swedish law.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Jan 2016 to primary completion in Dec 2019, 47 months.

Of 1,583 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Diabetes Mellitus, half reached primary completion within 23 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 10 and three quarters within 43. This study's 47 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 1,743 studies reached it within 21 months; a quarter within 9 and three quarters within 42.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jun 14, 2017
First posted
Dec 5, 2017
StartActual
Jan 1, 2016
Primary completionActual
Dec 1, 2019
CompletionActual
Nov 30, 2020
Last update
Jan 13, 2021
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 13, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03362983
Lead sponsor
Danderyd Hospital
Responsible party
Jonas Spaak (Professor, Danderyd Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 5, 2017
Start date
Jan 1, 2016
Primary completion
Dec 1, 2019
Completion
Nov 30, 2020
Last update
Jan 13, 2021

Study contacts

Jonas Spaak, MD, PhD
principal investigator · Danderyd University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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