Comparing intervention to lower systolic blood pressure in chronic kidney disease (CKD): a cluster randomised trial (CRT)

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic kidney disease; Urological and Genital Diseases; Other disorders of kidney and ureter, not elsewhere classified

• Registration Number: ISRCTN56023731
• Lead Sponsor: St George's University of London (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-06-12
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 105

Inclusion Criteria

The primary research participants are general practitioners involved in the study who will receive the various quality improvement interventions listed below. The interventions will be implemented at the practice (cluster) rather than the individual level. The study subjects (who may be regarded as secondary participants) will be all individuals with chronic kidney disease within the study practices.

1. Practices who provide written consent to participate
2. Locality specialist who will support the participation of the practice and the implementation of standard guidelines across the participating practices (appropriate to the arm of the study they are involved in)
3. Primary Care Trust (PCT) commissioners' engagement with the project and willingness to consider learning from its findings
4. Practice has had the same computer system for the last five years and has no plans to change it, or will allow access to check data quality
5. Practice has electronic laboratory links for the last three years

Exclusion Criteria

1. Practices in whom the computing system has changed over the last five years
2. Practices lacking an appropriate computer system from which data can be extracted
3. Practices in which referral data (from primary care to secondary care) is not available

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified