Randomized Comparison Angioplasty Outcomes at Hospitals With and Without On-site Cardiac Surgery
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Brief summary
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Angioplasty is a procedure which opens blocked heart arteries using balloons and/or stents. Most U.S. states and all national heart organizations require that angioplasty be done only at hospitals that can also perform open heart surgery. The reason for this is that there is a risk that angioplasty can cause injury to the heart artery that might require open heart surgery to fix. Open heart surgery is a backup in case it is needed. The risk that open heart surgery will be needed is very small. Nevertheless, without more research, many state Departments of Health and all national heart organizations do not want to change the requirement for having on-site open heart surgery wherever angioplasty is performed. Some States already allow this; and European heart organizations already allow it, as well. This study is designed to determine whether the safety and benefits of angioplasty are the same at hospitals that perform angioplasty either with or without open heart surgery backup. Patient who enter the study have a heart catheterization at a hospital without a heart surgery program. If they need angioplasty, then they are randomized to either stay at the hospital without heart surgery for their angioplasty or to be transferred for the procedure to a hospital with heart surgery. For every four patients, three stay at the hospital without heart surgery and one is transferred. The study is designed to show that there is no detectable difference between the safety and benefits of the procedure at the two types of hospital (with and without heart surgery). The cost of the procedure at the two hospital types is also compared.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00549796
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 18,876 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Apr 2006 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Feb 2012 (Actual)
- Completion
- Feb 2012 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Sep 11, 2014
2006 – 2012
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 60
- U.S. states
- 10
- U.S. cities
- 59
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crestwood Medical Center | Huntsville | Alabama | 35801 | — |
| Wellstar Cobb Hospital | Austell | Georgia | — | — |
| Southeast Georgia Health System | Brunswick | Georgia | — | — |
| Tanner Medical Center | Carrollton | Georgia | — | — |
| Hamilton Medical Center | Dalton | Georgia | 30722 | — |
| Fairview Park Hospital | Dublin | Georgia | 31021 | — |
| Spalding Regional Medical Center | Griffin | Georgia | — | — |
| West Georgia Health | La Grange | Georgia | — | — |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | Riverdale | Georgia | — | — |
| Archbold Memorial Hospital | Thomasville | Georgia | 31792 | — |
| Tift Regional Medical Center | Tifton | Georgia | — | — |
| Little Company of Mary Hospital | Evergreen Park | Illinois | — | — |
| Advocate South Suburban Hospital | Hazel Crest | Illinois | 60429 | — |
| Anne Arundel Medical Center | Annapolis | Maryland | — | — |
| Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Baltimore | Maryland | — | — |
| St. Agnes Hospital | Baltimore | Maryland | — | — |
| Southern Maryland Hospital Center | Clinton | Maryland | — | — |
| Frederick Memorial Hospital | Frederick | Maryland | — | — |
| Baltimore Washington Medical Center | Glen Burnie | Maryland | — | — |
| Meritus Medical Center | Hagerstown | Maryland | — | — |
| Shady Grove Adventist Hospital | Rockville | Maryland | — | — |
| Holy Cross Hospital | Silver Spring | Maryland | — | — |
| Bayonne Medical Center | Bayonne | New Jersey | 07002 | — |
| Clara Maas Medical Center | Belleville | New Jersey | — | — |
| JFK Medical Center | Edison | New Jersey | — | — |
| Trinitas Hospital | Elizabeth | New Jersey | — | — |
| Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center | Hamilton | New Jersey | — | — |
| Monmouth Medical Center | Long Branch | New Jersey | — | — |
| Virtua-West Jersey Hospital Marlton | Marlton | New Jersey | — | — |
| Raritan Bay Medical Center | Perth Amboy | New Jersey | — | — |
| Riverview Medical Center | Red Bank | New Jersey | — | — |
| Somerset Medical Center | Somerville | New Jersey | — | — |
| Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center | South Plainfield | New Jersey | — | — |
| Overlook Medical Center | Summit | New Jersey | — | — |
| Holy Name Hospital | Teaneck | New Jersey | — | — |
| Community Medical Center | Toms River | New Jersey | — | — |
| Duke Health Raleigh Hospital | Raleigh | North Carolina | 27609 | — |
| Rowan Regional Medical Center | Salisbury | North Carolina | — | — |
| Community Health and Wellness Center | Bryan | Ohio | 43506 | — |
| University Hospitals Case Medical Center / Geauga Medical Center | Chardon | Ohio | — | — |
| University Hospital East Ohio State University Medical Center | Columbus | Ohio | — | — |
| Southview Medical Center | Dayton | Ohio | — | — |
| Fort Hamilton Hospital | Hamilton | Ohio | — | — |
| Marietta Memorial Hospital | Marietta | Ohio | — | — |
| Knox Community Hospital | Mount Vernon | Ohio | — | — |
| Licking Memorial Hospital | Newark | Ohio | — | — |
| Southern Ohio Medical Center | Portsmouth | Ohio | — | — |
| Mt. Carmel St. Ann's Hospital | Westerville | Ohio | — | — |
| Legacy Meridian Park Hospital | Portland | Oregon | — | — |
| Sacred Heart Hospital | Allentown | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| Armstrong County Memorial Hospital | Kittanning | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| Evangelical Community Hospital | Lewisburg | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| UPMC McKeesport | McKeesport | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| Meadville Medical Center | Meadville | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| Monongahela Valley Hospital | Monongahela | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| West Chester Hospital | West Chester | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| Memorial Hospital | York | Pennsylvania | — | — |
| Kingwood Medical Center | Kingwood | Texas | — | — |
| Mainland Medical Center | Texas City | Texas | — | — |
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