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NCT Number: NCT00820183

A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Hypertension Cardiovascular Diseases Vascular Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

SAP Cerdanyola-Ripollet Institut Català de la Salut

Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

About this study

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

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control

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

Primary outcomes

  1. good control of hypertension as a dichotomous variable, based on systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure records over the last 12 months

    Time frame: every three months, for a whole year

Secondary outcomes

  1. treatment with antihypertensive drugs, number of antihypertensive drugs, assessment of therapeutic compliance

    Time frame: every three months, for a whole year

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control: the INCOTECA Project

Acronym: INCOTECA

Important dates

Study start
2006
Primary completion
2007
Study completion
2008
First posted
Jan 12, 2009
Registry last updated
May 7, 2009

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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