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NCT number NCT03480217
Other study ID # AAAQ1062
Secondary ID 1R01HS024262-01
Status Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date April 2, 2018
Est. completion date July 1, 2022

Study information

Verified date March 2022
Source Columbia University
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this study is to use a cluster-randomized design (1:1 ratio) among 8 primary care clinics affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital to test the effectiveness of a theory-informed multifaceted implementation strategy designed to increase the uptake of the 2015 United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) hypertension screening guidelines. The primary outcome is the ordering of out-of-office blood pressure testing, either ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) or home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM), by primary care clinicians for patients with newly elevated office blood pressure (BP), as recommended by the 2015 guidelines.


Description:

The goal of this study is to assess the effect of a multifaceted implementation strategy aimed at increasing adherence to the 2015 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations for hypertension screening, with a focus on implementation in primary care clinics that reach medically underserved patients. The accurate diagnosis of hypertension is essential for targeting appropriate therapy at the patients who can most benefit from hypertension treatment. On the other hand, inappropriate diagnosis of hypertension can lead to unnecessary treatment with blood pressure (BP) medications, wasteful healthcare utilization, and adverse psychological consequences from being mislabeled as having a chronic disease. There are challenges to measuring BP in clinical settings that make inappropriate diagnosis common. A systematic review conducted by the USPSTF in 2014 found that 5%-65% of patients with elevated office BP do not have high out-of-office BP readings according to ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) or home BP monitoring (HBPM). This is commonly referred to as white-coat hypertension. In contrast to patients with sustained hypertension (elevated BP in office and out-of-office settings), patients with white-coat hypertension do not appear to be at increased cardiovascular risk nor to benefit from antihypertensive treatment. Based primarily on these observations, in 2015, the USPSTF updated their hypertension screening guidelines to recommend that patients with elevated office BP undergo out-of-office BP testing (ABPM or HBPM) to rule-out white-coat hypertension prior to a new diagnosis of hypertension. While ABPM is recommended as the first-line out-of-office screening test, HBPM is cited as a reasonable alternative if ABPM is unavailable. Despite the USPSTF guideline recommendation, ABPM and HBPM are currently infrequently utilized in the US, particularly as part of hypertension diagnosis. Accordingly, the investigators conducted focus groups with primary care providers, patients, and other key stakeholders (medical directors, nurse supervisors, medical assistants, nurse practitioners, front desk staff) to identify the major barriers to implementation of the new hypertension screening guidelines. The investigators then applied the Behavior Change Wheel, a trans-theoretical intervention development framework, to categorize barriers and select theory-informed intervention components that would address these barriers. The investigators arrived at a theory-informed implementation strategy for improving out-of-office BP testing, which included educational activities for providers (i.e., presentations at grand rounds or other venues at which physicians are present); training registered nurses to be capable of assisting with teaching patients to conduct HBPM; disseminating information on how to order ABPM and HBPM to clinicians, nurses, and front desk staff via huddles, emails, and other electronic communications; creating a computerized electronic health record (EHR)-embedded clinical decision support tool that prompts recall of the USPSTF hypertension guidelines and facilitates ordering of HBPM and ABPM for eligible patients; creating and disseminating patient information materials on ABPM and HBPM; providing periodic feedback about clinic-level success with adhering to the guideline, and developing an easily accessible, culturally-adapted and locally tailored ABPM service. The investigators now aim to test this multifaceted implementation strategy to increase the uptake of the USPSTF hypertension recommendations in the ambulatory care network (ACN) of New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP), a network of primary care clinics serving 120,000 patients from underserved communities in New York City. Specifically, the investigators are conducting a 2-year cluster randomized trial (Phase II of the project) following a 6-month implementation phase in which we randomize matched pairs of 8 ACN clinics (1:1) to either receive the multicomponent guideline implementation strategy (N = 4 clinics) or a wait-list control (N = 4 clinics). The investigators aim to assess the effectiveness of this intervention on the completion of out-of-office BP testing (ABPM or HBPM) prior to hypertension diagnosis (primary outcome) as well as the effect on out-of-office test ordering, irrespective of test completion (secondary outcome).


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Active, not recruiting
Enrollment 2000
Est. completion date July 1, 2022
Est. primary completion date July 1, 2022
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Patient Inclusion Criteria (as per electronic medical records): - Elevated blood pressure (BP) (systolic BP>=140 mmHg or diastolic BP >=90 mmHg) at a scheduled clinic visit with a primary care provider from a clinic that is participating in the study; if multiple BP readings were taken from a visit, then the average of the readings will be used Patient Exclusion Criteria (as per electronic medical records): - Prior diagnosis of hypertension - Prior diagnosis of white-coat hypertension - Prescribed antihypertensive medication - Severely elevated BP (systolic BP>=180 mmHg or diastolic BP>=110 mmHg) - Evidence of target-organ damage (chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease) Clinic Inclusion Criteria: - Primary care clinics that are part of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Ambulatory Care Network and were not part of implementation development Clinic Exclusion Criteria: - Medical director of clinic declines to participate in cluster randomized trial

Study Design


Intervention

Behavioral:
Multifaceted Implementation Strategy
Key components include: educational presentations to primary care providers at grand rounds patient information materials on ABPM and HBPM training registered nurses to assist providers with teaching patients to conduct HBPM information on how to order ABPM and HBPM to clinicians, nurses and front desk staff via huddles, emails, and other electronic communications a computerized EHR-embedded clinical decision support tool that prompts providers to recall the USPSTF hypertension guidelines and facilitates ordering of HBPM and ABPM for guideline-eligible patients periodic feedback to primary care providers about clinic-level success with appropriately ordering ABPM and HBPM for eligible patients an accessible, culturally-adapted and locally tailored ABPM service

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health New York New York

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Columbia University Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (5)

Carter EJ, Moise N, Alcántara C, Sullivan AM, Kronish IM. Patient Barriers and Facilitators to Ambulatory and Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: A Qualitative Study. Am J Hypertens. 2018 Jul 16;31(8):919-927. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpy062. — View Citation

Kronish IM, Kent S, Moise N, Shimbo D, Safford MM, Kynerd RE, O'Beirne R, Sullivan A, Muntner P. Barriers to conducting ambulatory and home blood pressure monitoring during hypertension screening in the United States. J Am Soc Hypertens. 2017 Sep;11(9):573-580. doi: 10.1016/j.jash.2017.06.012. Epub 2017 Jul 6. — View Citation

Moise N, Phillips E, Carter E, Alcantara C, Julian J, Thanataveerat A, Schwartz JE, Ye S, Duran A, Shimbo D, Kronish IM. Design and study protocol for a cluster randomized trial of a multi-faceted implementation strategy to increase the uptake of the USPSTF hypertension screening recommendations: the EMBRACE study. Implement Sci. 2020 Aug 8;15(1):63. doi: 10.1186/s13012-020-01017-8. — View Citation

Piper MA, Evans CV, Burda BU, Margolis KL, O'Connor E, Whitlock EP. Diagnostic and predictive accuracy of blood pressure screening methods with consideration of rescreening intervals: a systematic review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Feb 3;162(3):192-204. doi: 10.7326/M14-1539. Review. — View Citation

Siu AL; U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for high blood pressure in adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Nov 17;163(10):778-86. doi: 10.7326/M15-2223. Epub 2015 Oct 13. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Change in proportion of eligible patients who completed out-of-office BP testing post-implementation By recording patients with elevated office BP and no prior diagnosis of hypertension who completed ABPM or HBPM test from pre-implementation (date of visits with elevated office BP: October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017) to post-implementation (date of visits with elevated office BP: April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019) 12 months
Secondary Change in proportion of eligible patients who completed out-of-office BP testing during maintenance period By recording patients with elevated office BP and no prior diagnosis of hypertension who completed ABPM or HBPM test from pre-implementation (date of eligible visits with elevated office BP: October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017) to maintenance period (date of eligible visits with elevated office BP: April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020) 24 months
Secondary Change in proportion of scheduled clinic visits with appropriate out-of-office BP test ordering post-implementation By recording scheduled clinic visits with patients who have elevated office BP and no prior diagnosis of hypertension at which providers order ABPM or HBPM test from pre-implementation period (October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017) to post-implementation period (April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019) 12 months
Secondary Change in proportion of scheduled clinic visits with appropriate out-of-office BP test ordering during maintenance period By recording scheduled clinic visits with patients who have elevated office BP and no prior diagnosis of hypertension at which providers order ABPM or HBPM test from pre-implementation period (October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017) to post-implementation period (April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020) 24 months
Secondary Change in proportion of patients with newly diagnosed white-coat hypertension post-implementation By recording patients with newly diagnosed white-coat hypertension from pre-implementation period (date of visits with elevated office BP: October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017) to post-implementation period (date of visits with elevated office BP: April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019) 12 months
Secondary Change in proportion of patients with newly diagnosed white-coat hypertension during maintenance period By recording patients with newly diagnosed white-coat hypertension from pre-implementation period (date of visits with elevated office BP: October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017) to maintenance period (date of visits with elevated office BP: April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020) 24 months
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