Group Visits to Improve Hypertension Management
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Hypertension
In brief
This study investigates group medical visits as a quality improvement strategy for hypertension. It studies group visits in which patients see their own primary care provider together with other patients who have hypertension. The group visits are intended to enhance the patient's self-efficacy for self-management of their chronic disease (hypertension).
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00129493
- Run by
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- People needed
- 300
- Starts
- 2004-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2007-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-04-07
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Subjects include both health care professionals and their patients. The included health care professionals are primary care clinicians practicing at VA Palo Alto who have their own panels of patients for whom they provide primary care. Included patients are patients of these primary care clinicians; the patients must have a diagnosis of hypertension and at least one blood pressure in the previous year that was above guideline-target for that patient, and patient must be approved by the primary care clinician as suitable for a group medical visit.
You may not qualify if…
- Primary care clinicians with very small patient panels (too small for recruitment of patients for group visits) ae excluded. Patients are excluded by their primary care clinician using clinical judgment; typical reasons for exclusion include terminal illness, dementia that would make patient unable to participate in group discussions. Because primary care clinicians located at main study site do not provide primary care to children, no children will be included in the sample.
Where it is running
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA — Palo Alto, California, United States
- VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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