A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control (INCOTECA)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00820183 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : January 12, 2009
Last Update Posted : May 7, 2009
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Hypertension | Other: Quality Improvement plan for Hypertension Control | Not Applicable |
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
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 34327 participants |
Allocation: | Non-Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single (Participant) |
Primary Purpose: | Health Services Research |
Official Title: | A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control: the INCOTECA Project |
Study Start Date : | February 2006 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | April 2007 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | April 2008 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: quality improvement plan
It will be the group of primary health care teams who will undertake the quality improvement plan for hypertensive patients
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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
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- 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 ]
- treatment with antihypertensive drugs, number of antihypertensive drugs, assessment of therapeutic compliance [ Time Frame: every three months, for a whole year ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
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

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00820183
Spain | |
SAP Cerdanyola-Ripollet Institut Català de la Salut | |
Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain |
Principal Investigator: | Roser Valles Fernandez | Institut Català de la Salut |
Responsible Party: | Roser VallésFernández, Institut Català de la Salut |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00820183 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
RSB_2006 |
First Posted: | January 12, 2009 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | May 7, 2009 |
Last Verified: | January 2009 |
Hypertension Intervention Primary Care Quality improvement |
Hypertension Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases |