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A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control

NCT00820183 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 34327

Last updated 2009-05-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study hypothesis is that the implementation of a plan for quality improvement at the primary care health teams taking care of hypertensive patients, will increase the level of blood pressure control among those patients.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control

Implementation of a plan of quality improvement addressed to health professionals in Primary Health Care Teams. It includes: Specific training programme on how to diagnose hypertension , and measure blood pressure correctly To send feed back information to primary care health professionals about poorly controlled hypertensive patients An audit will be performed, every 6 months, to see the adhesion to the recommended clinical guidelines , and the information will be diffused among the participant primary health care professionals Each participant primary health care team will have a designated reference person, that will provide support on any doubts on the programme implementation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Roser Valles Fernandez · Institut Català de la Salut

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-02-28
Primary Completion
2007-04-30
Completion
2008-04-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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