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A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control (INCOTECA)

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Information provided by:
Jordi Gol i Gurina Foundation
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00820183
First received: January 9, 2009
Last updated: May 6, 2009
Last verified: January 2009
History of Changes
  Purpose

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.


Condition Intervention
Hypertension
 Other: Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Subject)
Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Official Title: A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control: the INCOTECA Project

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U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Jordi Gol i Gurina Foundation:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • good control of hypertension as a dichotomous variable, based on systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure records over the last 12 months [ Time Frame: every three months, for a whole year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • treatment with antihypertensive drugs, number of antihypertensive drugs, assessment of therapeutic compliance [ Time Frame: every three months, for a whole year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment: 34327
Study Start Date: February 2006
Study Completion Date: April 2008
Primary Completion Date: April 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: quality improvement plan
It will be the group of primary health care teams who will undertake the quality improvement plan for hypertensive patients
 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
No Intervention: non intervention
It will be the group of primary health care teams that will not undertake the quality improvement plan for hypertension control

Detailed Description:

The study is to compare the results on the hypertension control between two groups of primary health care teams. The intervention group will undertake a quality improvement plan for hypertension control, in which the following aspects will be included in the intervention:

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.

The non intervention group will follow hypertensive patients following the same clinical practice guide as the intervention group, with no intervention on the primary health care professionals

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients diagnosed with hypertension before January 1st, 2006
  • Patients assigned at the primary health team participating, and with clinical electronic records

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients diagnosed with hypertension after January 1st, 2006
  • Patients under 18 years of age
  • Patients with a diastolic blood pressure higher than systolic blood pressure as recorded in the clinical records
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00820183

Locations
Spain
SAP Cerdanyola-Ripollet Institut Català de la Salut
Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
Sponsors and Collaborators
Jordi Gol i Gurina Foundation
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Roser Valles Fernandez Institut Català de la salut
  More Information

Additional Information:
describes de procedures to follow management and treatment of hypertensive patients in the study protocol  This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Roser VallésFernández, Institut Català de la Salut
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00820183     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: RSB_2006
Study First Received: January 9, 2009
Last Updated: May 6, 2009
Health Authority: Spain: Ethics Committee

Keywords provided by Jordi Gol i Gurina Foundation:
Hypertension
Intervention
Primary Care
Quality improvement

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hypertension
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 18, 2013