NCT05606783

Using Bluetooth Home Blood Pressure Monitors With Pharmacist Interventions

Using Bluetooth Home Blood Pressure Monitors With Pharmacist Interventions to Manage Uncontrolled Hypertension in the Community Setting - A Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of South Florida · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Family Medicine patients with uncontrolled hypertension will be given a Bluetooth enabled home blood pressure machine to monitor their blood pressure every day for 6 weeks. The blood pressure results will be sent automatically to the patient's electronic medical record via applications on their iPhone. Study pharmacists will follow-up with the patients once per week via a telehealth appointment using the app VSee, where the blood pressure results will be reviewed. The pharmacists will also counsel the patients on lifestyle modifications in order to improve blood pressure.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Telehealth Follow-up Visits	• Follow-up with patients once per week for six (6) weeks via scheduled 20-minute telehealth appointment with each patient via the HIPAA secure and compliant platform, VSee o During this telehealth appointment, the study pharmacists will counsel the patients on their blood pressure readings for that week and provide lifestyle education focusing on patient-specific diet and exercise recommendations
BEHAVIORAL	Surveys	A pre- and post-survey will be given at the initial and final in-person appointments, respectively • These surveys will collect basic patient demographics, knowledge of blood pressure, comfort with checking blood pressure at home, and previous experience working with a pharmacist
DEVICE	Devices	Smart Phones with Apple Health Software will be used to monitor blood pressure once a day, and results will be sent automatically to the patients EHR (Epic) • The Omron 10 Series Wireless Upper Arm Blood Pressure Device will be given to the patient to monitor blood pressure at home daily

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-23
• Primary completion: 2019-04-30
• Completion: 2019-06-30
• First posted: 2022-11-07
• Last updated: 2022-11-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study