Recognition of Abnormal Pediatric Blood Pressures in Primary Care

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Device: PDA blood pressure screening program and chart reminder

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00130663

219405

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will look at general pediatricians' effectiveness at screening children for elevated blood pressure values in the primary care setting. Two new screening tools will be introduced and their effectiveness will be measured against current practice by way of medical chart review.

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Health care supervision visit
• Documented measured blood pressure and height
• Between the ages of 3 years and 17 years

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than 3 years of age
• Older than 17 years of age
• No documented blood pressure measurement
• Not a health supervision encounter

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)