A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hypertension
• Interventions: Other: Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control

• Registration Number: NCT00820183
• Lead Sponsor: Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

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.

Detailed Description

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

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-02
• Primary Completion: 2007-04
• Study Completion: 2008-04
• Status Verified: 2009-01
• Study First Submitted: 2009-01-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-01-09
• Study First Posted: 2009-01-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-05-06
• Last Update Posted: 2009-05-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 34327

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
quality improvement plan	Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control	It will be the group of primary health care teams who will undertake the quality improvement plan for hypertensive patients

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
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 Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
treatment with antihypertensive drugs, number of antihypertensive drugs, assessment of therapeutic compliance	every three months, for a whole year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

SAP Cerdanyola-Ripollet Institut Català de la Salut; 🇪🇸 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain