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Group Visits to Improve Hypertension Management

NCT00129493 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2015-04-07

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Summary

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).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Group medical visits

Our intervention aims to develop and implement a model of group medical visits in iterative steps, to evaluate whether group medical visits improve patient adherence to prescribed antihypertensive medications and improve BP control, and to assess patient, physician, and health care system factors involved in successfully making organizational changes to encompass group medical visits.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Mary K. Goldstein, MD MS · VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-02-29
Primary Completion
2006-03-31
Completion
2007-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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