Achieving Blood Pressure Control Through Enhanced Discharge (AchieveBP)

Wayne State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Behavioral: Patient education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02069015

BCBSMF 1956.11

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of the study is to determine if enhanced discharge from the emergency department will improve blood pressure control and self-care management. Enhanced discharge will include a hypertension intervention delivered by a touch-screen kiosk over a three month period.

Full description

A targeted sample of patients with uncontrolled blood pressure at the time of their emergency department visit discharge will be randomized into either standard or enhanced discharge. To control for medication effects in achieving blood pressure control, both groups will receive similar blood pressure medication while actively participating in the study.

Enrollment: 139 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Present with uncontrolled blood pressure to the emergency department (>140/90 for non-diabetics and >130/80 for diabetics)
• Self-reported history of hypertension

Exclusion criteria

• End-stage renal disease
• No history of hypertension
• Do not present with uncontrolled blood pressure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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139 participants in 2 patient groups

Enhanced discharge

Experimental group

Description:

Patient education about hypertension delivered through a touch-screen kiosk at 4 time points in addition to standard discharge.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Patient education

Standard discharge

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard discharge is patient instruction, instructions for follow-up to primary care and medication/prescription