A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control

NCT ID: NCT00820183

Last Updated: 2009-05-07

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

34327 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-02-28

Study Completion Date

2008-04-30

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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The study is to compare the results on the hypertension control between two groups of primary health care teams. The intervention group will undertake a quality improvement plan for hypertension control, in which the following aspects will be included in the intervention:

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.

The non intervention group will follow hypertensive patients following the same clinical practice guide as the intervention group, with no intervention on the primary health care professionals

Conditions

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Hypertension

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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quality improvement plan

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

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control

Intervention Type 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

non intervention

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

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control

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

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

* 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
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Institut Català de la Salut

Principal Investigators

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Roser Valles Fernandez

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Institut Català de la Salut

Locations

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SAP Cerdanyola-Ripollet Institut Català de la Salut

Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

Related Links

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http://www.gencat.cat/ics/professionals/guies/hipertensio/hipertensio.htm

describes de procedures to follow management and treatment of hypertensive patients in the study protocol

Other Identifiers

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RSB_2006

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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