NCT01425515

Improving Care for Patients With High Blood Pressure

Heart Healthy Lenoir: Improving Care for Patients With High Blood Pressure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 535 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators are conducting a single group intervention study to improve blood pressure control and reduce racial and literacy related disparities among people with hypertension. The intervention includes providing patients with home blood pressure monitors, administering phone-coaching to participants, and improving hypertension care at the participating practices from which patients are enrolled. The investigators will follow the patients for 2 years to determine if blood pressure control improves. In addition, the project will explore genetic factors associated with cardiovascular disease risk and treatment success.

Conditions

• Hypertension
• Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Complex quality improvement intervention	We are implementing a complex quality improvement intervention that includes changes in practice processes to enhance hypertension care, provision of home blood pressure monitors to patients, and telephone coaching around hypertension self-management.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2014-10-01
• Completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2011-08-30
• Last updated: 2014-11-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States