Status:
COMPLETED
Group Visits to Improve Hypertension Management
Lead Sponsor:
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Conditions:
Hypertension
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief 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 patie...
Detailed Description
BACKGROUND Many veterans with hypertension have poorly controlled blood pressure (BP); new strategies for quality improvement are needed. A new model of care delivery, Group Medical Visits, holds prom...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Subjects include both health care professionals and their patients. The included health care professionals are primary care clinicians practicing at VA Palo Alto who have their own panels of patients for whom they provide primary care. Included patients are patients of these primary care clinicians; the patients must have a diagnosis of hypertension and at least one blood pressure in the previous year that was above guideline-target for that patient, and patient must be approved by the primary care clinician as suitable for a group medical visit.
Exclusion
- Primary care clinicians with very small patient panels (too small for recruitment of patients for group visits) ae excluded. Patients are excluded by their primary care clinician using clinical judgment; typical reasons for exclusion include terminal illness, dementia that would make patient unable to participate in group discussions. Because primary care clinicians located at main study site do not provide primary care to children, no children will be included in the sample.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2004
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
August 1 2007
Estimated Enrollment :
300 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00129493
Start Date
February 1 2004
End Date
August 1 2007
Last Update
April 7 2015
Active Locations (2)
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1
VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304-1290
2
VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02130