A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control

NCT00820183 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: RSB_2006
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 34,327
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The study hypothesis is that the implementation of a plan for quality improvement at the primary care health teams taking care of hypertensive patients, will increase the level of blood pressure control among those patients.

Conditions

Hypertension

Keywords

Hypertension; Intervention; Primary Care; Quality improvement

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• good control of hypertension as a dichotomous variable, based on systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure records over the last 12 months

  every three months, for a whole year

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• treatment with antihypertensive drugs, number of antihypertensive drugs, assessment of therapeutic compliance

  every three months, for a whole year

Study Arms (2)

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EXPERIMENTAL

It will be the group of primary health care teams who will undertake the quality improvement plan for hypertensive patients

Other: Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control

non intervention

NO INTERVENTION

It will be the group of primary health care teams that will not undertake the quality improvement plan for hypertension control

Interventions

Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control OTHER

Implementation of a plan of quality improvement addressed to health professionals in Primary Health Care Teams. It includes: Specific training programme on how to diagnose hypertension , and measure blood pressure correctly To send feed back information to primary care health professionals about poorly controlled hypertensive patients An audit will be performed, every 6 months, to see the adhesion to the recommended clinical guidelines , and the information will be diffused among the participant primary health care professionals Each participant primary health care team will have a designated reference person, that will provide support on any doubts on the programme implementation

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Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Patients diagnosed with hypertension before January 1st, 2006
• Patients assigned at the primary health team participating, and with clinical electronic records

You may not qualify if:

• Patients diagnosed with hypertension after January 1st, 2006
• Patients under 18 years of age
• Patients with a diastolic blood pressure higher than systolic blood pressure as recorded in the clinical records

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina: lead

Study Sites (1)

SAP Cerdanyola-Ripollet Institut Català de la Salut

Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

Location

Related Links

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MeSH Terms

Conditions

Hypertension

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases

Study Officials

• Roser Valles Fernandez

  Institut Català de la Salut

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 9, 2009
• First Posted: January 12, 2009
• Study Start: February 1, 2006
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2007
• Study Completion: April 1, 2008
• Last Updated: May 7, 2009

Record last verified: 2009-01

Locations

ES (1)