Status:
COMPLETED
Community Hypertension Assessment Trial (CHAT)
Lead Sponsor:
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Ottawa
Conditions:
Hypertension
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The Community Hypertension Assessment Trial (CHAT) is an investigation of the effect of community pharmacy based blood pressure (BP) monitoring sessions led by peer health educators, with feedback to ...
Detailed Description
Hypertension affects about 22% of Canadian adults and is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Most countries have increasing older adult populations and hypertension prevalence increas...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 28 family physicians were recruited; all eligible patients in practices allocated to the intervention arm were invited to the program. A randomly selected set of 50 charts per practice were audited, regardless of session attendance.
- Physician Practices
- Non-academic (none of its members are full-time faculty members)
- Full-time
- Regular family practice in terms of size and case-mix
- Able to provide an electronic roster that includes a mailing address of their patients 65 years and older
Exclusion
- work in walk-in clinics or emergency departments
- about to retire
- work part-time
- fewer than 50 patients 65 years or older
- specialized practice profile
- Patients
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Community-dwelling
- 65 years or older
- Visited the practice at least once in the last year
- Considered regular patients by the physician
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2002
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
End Date :
January 1 2005
Estimated Enrollment :
28 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00217334
Start Date
November 1 2002
End Date
January 1 2005
Last Update
September 22 2005
Active Locations (1)
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McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N 3Z5