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A Team Model of Hypertension Care in African Americans

NCT00205153 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 576

Last updated 2014-12-23

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Summary

This Team Education and Adherence Monitoring (TEAM) trial will evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a pharmacy-based intervention in a randomized controlled trial involving 597 treated hypertensive African American patients in five Wisconsin cities. The study involves 28 community pharmacies (14 intervention, 14 control) owned by two pharmacy corporations. Intervention pharmacists and pharmacy technicians implemented a 6-month blood pressure (BP) monitoring program that involved working together as a team with patients and their physicians to achieve improved medication adherence, healthy lifestyles, drug therapy, and hypertension control.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Pharmacy TEAM monitoring and counseling

Pharmacy team monitors and counsels patient using automatic BP monitors and special TEAM tools for assessing and improving patient adherence, barriers to adherence, lifestyle, drug therapy, BP control, and collaboration with physicians.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bonnie L Svarstad, PhD · University of Wisconsin, Madison

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-12-31
Primary Completion
2009-02-28
Completion
2009-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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