VISN Collaborative for Improving Hypertension Management With ATHENA-HTN

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hypertension

In brief

This project is a VA HSR\&D-funded Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) project to translate into practice evidence about clinical management of primary hypertension. The project aims to contribute to quality improvement of care for patients with primary hypertension. The project implemented a clinical decision support (CDS) system for primary care clinicians and evaluated the implementation by studying the following: impact on the clinicians' prescribing and their patients' blood pressures; the clinician satisfaction with the CDS; and organizational factors in the implementation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00374452

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

103

Starts

2007-01-01

Expected to finish

2011-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-03-29

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Must be primary care clinicians (for example, physician or nurse practitioner) at one of the participating VA medical centers. This study is NOT recruiting patients.
• The primary care clinician must have a panel of patients for whom he or she provides direct care.

You may not qualify if…

• Anyone who does not meet inclusion criteria.

Where it is running

• VA Palo Alto Health Care System — Palo Alto, California, United States
• VA Connecticut Health Care System (Newington) — Newington, Connecticut, United States
• VA Connecticut Health Care System (West Haven) — West Haven, Connecticut, United States
• Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford — Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
• VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• VA Medical Center, Manchester — Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
• VA Medical Center, Providence — Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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