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Implementation of a Decision Support System and Its Effect on Early Optimisation of Lipid-Lowering Therapies in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome: a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Decision Support System (DSS) for Acute Coronary Syndrome and Myocardial Infarction. Completed, enrolled 1,139 participants across 42 sites in 3 countries.
Detailed Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare implementation of a Decision Support System (DSS) - aligned to the 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines - in addition to routine clinical care versus routine clinical care without availability of a DSS, in participants aged ≥18 to \< 80 years old presenting with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). The main questions it aims to answer are: * to assess whether the availability of a DSS (which provides estimates of risk and estimates of potential benefit through LDL-C lowering) to current practice results in an increase in the early initiation of combination Lipid Lowering Therapies (LLTs) or intensification of LLT regimens compared to current practice alone over a 16-week period after an Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) event * To estimate in the study cohort the potential benefits of guideline-based LLT intensification via simulation-based methods using estimates of baseline risk: LLT utilisation, additional LDL-C reductions and LDL-C goal achievement, on simulated risk of CV events through modelling. Participants will give consent to randomised clinical sites to collect their data. The clinical sites will either be randomised to standard of care or the availability of and access to the DSS. Researchers will compare patients from DSS and Non-DSS sites to see if the availability of the DSS results in implementation of more intensive lipid lowering regimens, resulting in the achievement of lower LDL-C values as well as the proportion of patients who reach target LDL-C levels (\<1.4 mmol/L (\<55 mg/dL) by Week 16.
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Interventions
This DSS will provide estimates of potential benefits in terms of ASCVD risk reduction (composite endpoint: combined non-fatal myocardial infarction, non-fatal ischaemic stroke and cardiovascular death) as a function of treatment duration and magnitude of LDL-C lowering. The DSS does not recommend treatments but shows the expected ASCVD risk, absolute and relative ASCDV risk reductions and number needed to treat for the various treatments selected by the clinical user on the potential value of initiation of an add-on therapy for reducing the risk of recurrent Cardiovascular (CV) events. Implementing the patient-specific recommendation remains at the clinicians' discretion.