High Blood Pressure Strategy (HBPS)

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Behavioral: Systems Change (High Blood Pressure Strategy)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00446914

474-2006

Details and patient eligibility

About

This program developed by the HSFO aims at helping people of Ontario and their primary healthcare providers better diagnose, manage and control high blood pressure. The High Blood Pressure Strategy brings together healthcare providers and patients to improve the way in which family doctors, nurse practitioners and pharmacists work together and with patients towards improved control of high blood pressure through the use of evidence-informed tools combined with local systems change.

Full description

Approximately 5,000 patients will participate in the study at 11 family practice sites throughout Ontario. Each of the 11 clinic sites will be randomised to either intervention or delayed intervention 9 months later. The intervention is a systems change involving interprofessional education and management tools to bring together physicians, nurses and pharmacists with the patient. Patients will be monitored by their family doctor or nurse practitioner at scheduled follow-up visits during a period of 36 months for an effect of the intervention over time on the patient's blood pressure.

Enrollment: 5,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults aged 18 years or older
• History of elevated BP reading or primary hypertension diagnosis

Exclusion criteria

• Major mental health illness of cognitive impairment
• Language barrier (unable to speak or read English)
• Lives in a long-term care home
• Secondary hypertension