A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control

Hypertension Clinical Trial

— INCOTECA  

Official title:

A Quality Improvement Plan for Hypertension Control: the INCOTECA Project

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00820183
• Other study ID #: RSB_2006
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 9, 2009
• Last updated: May 6, 2009
• Start date: February 2006
• Est. completion date: April 2008

Study information

• Verified date: January 2009
• Source: Jordi Gol i Gurina Foundation
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Spain: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

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

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 34327
• Est. completion date: April 2008
• Est. primary completion date: April 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hypertension

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	SAP Cerdanyola-Ripollet Institut Català de la Salut	Cerdanyola del Vallès	Barcelona

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Jordi Gol i Gurina Foundation

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	good control of hypertension as a dichotomous variable, based on systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure records over the last 12 months		every three months, for a whole year	No
Secondary	treatment with antihypertensive drugs, number of antihypertensive drugs, assessment of therapeutic compliance		every three months, for a whole year	No

External Links

•   describes de procedures to follow management and treatment of hypertensive patients in the study protocol