Personalized Physician Learning to Improve Hypertension Care

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Conditions studied: Hypertension

In brief

In this project the investigators implement and test the ability of a Personalized Physician Learning (PPL) intervention to improve hypertension (HT) care with the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: Implement two versions of a Personalized Physician Learning (PPL) intervention and assess the ability of these interventions to improve hypertension control in primary care practice. * Hypothesis 1: Patients of physicians who receive the REAL+PPL Intervention (Group 1) will subsequently have better HT control compared to patients of control group physicians (Group 3). * Hypothesis 2: Patients of physicians who receive the SIM+PPL Intervention (Group 2) will subsequently have better HT control compared to patients of control group physicians (Group 3). * Hypothesis 3: Patients of physicians who receive the REAL+PPL (Group 1) will subsequently have better HT control compared to patients of physicians who receive the SIM+PPL (Group 2). Specific Aim 2: Assess the cost-effectiveness of the SIM+PPL and REAL+PPL interventions, relative to no intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00903071

Run by

HealthPartners Institute

People needed

130

Starts

2010-03-01

Expected to finish

2013-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-06-16

Who can join

Age: 22 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Practicing physician at 1 of 2 medical groups.
• Be a general internist of family physician.
• Provide ongoing clinical care to at least 25 adult patients with uncontrolled hypertension. Additional patient criteria include;
• 22 years or more on date of physician randomization.
• Charlson score less than 4.
• Be linked to a primary care physician who has consented to the study.
• Have 2 consecutive office blood pressure readings above the 7th Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC7) goal, within a 12 month time period.

You may not qualify if…

• Physicians practicing at a second clinic for more than 1 day per week. Additional patient criteria;
• Less than 22 years of age.
• Charlson score of >= 4

Where it is running

• HealthPartners Research Foundation — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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